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• The pdfTeX extension of TeX, developed by H鄋 Th? Th鄋h, incorporates microtypography.
• The main difference between TeX and pdfTeX is that whereas TeX outputs PDF files directly.
• The technique of glyph scaling or microtypography has been implemented by Adobe InDesign and more recent versions of pdfTeX.
• Since version 2.7, MiKTeX has support for XeTeX, MetaPost and pdfTeX and compatibility with Windows 7.
• Another, more recent solution is the use of pdfTeX to directly generate PDF files, which have readers for most platforms.
• It also allows the user to use different TeX engines like pdfTeX, XeTeX, and LuaTeX without changing the user interface.
• Also, in order to be useful today, PDF output as well as pdfTeX-specific extensions need to be implemented.
• Users of TeX systems that output directly to PDF, such as pdfTeX, XeTeX, or LuaTeX, generally never use Metafont output at all.
• pdfTeX is included in most modern distributions of LaTeX and ConTeXt ( including TeX Live, MacTeX, and MiKTeX ) and used as the default TeX engine.
• :With pdfTeX, I've used MetaPost and PGF / TikZ . TikZ is more expressive, I feel, though I tend to use MetaPost more often.
• It is possible to obtain DVI output from pdfTeX . This DVI output should be identical to that of TeX, unless pdfTeX's extra microtypography features have been activated.
• It is possible to obtain DVI output from pdfTeX . This DVI output should be identical to that of TeX, unless pdfTeX's extra microtypography features have been activated.
• More recently, H鄋 Th? Th鄋h and others have written a new implementation of TeX called pdfTeX, which also outputs to PDF and takes advantage of features available in that format.
• Direct embedding of PostScript graphics is no longer functional, and one has to use a program such as eps2pdf to convert EPS files to PDF, which can then be directly inserted by pdfTeX.
• The main difference between MKII and MKIV is that MKIV is based on the LuaTeX engine and MKII is based on pdfTeX and XeTeX ( although one could select the TeX engine used in ConTeXt ).
• :: : It's quite easy to get PostScript / PDF output from TeX, either with pdfTeX or by producing a standard talk ) 20 : 35, 24 June 2007 ( UTC)
• Knuth has said that there is nothing inherent in TeX that requires DVI as the output format, and later versions of TeX, notably pdfTeX, XeTeX and LuaTeX, all support output directly to PDF.
• Two prominent characteristics of pdfTeX are character protrusion, which generalizes the concept of hanging punctuation, and font expansion, an implementation of Hermann Zapf's ideas for improving the grayness of a typeset page.
• For LaTeX, the microtype package provides an interface to these microtypographic extensions;, pdfTeX was not compatible with XeTeX, an extension of TeX that makes it easier to use many typographic features of OpenType fonts.
• ConTeXt, another typesetting system based on TeX, offers both microtypographical features such as expansion and protrusion ( a . k . a . hanging punctuation ) and OpenType support through LuaTeX, which is an extended version of pdfTeX.