[pdftex] pdftex.sty file

[Bill Tottle]

Dear Sir/Madam,

I have downloaded the reduced size Latex package, but
when I started to write a document an error message keeps coming up.
It says 'pdftex.sty not found'. I have tried to locate it on my pc but
its not there. I have also tried to find it on CTAN but its not there
also. Have I done something wrong or does this file actually exist
somewhere and I cant find it? Please advise if you can.

Hopefully
yours

Bill Tottle

[David Carlisle]

Post by Bill Tottle
I have downloaded the reduced size Latex package,

Not sure what you mean by that but no matter.

Post by Bill Tottle
It says 'pdftex.sty not found'.

You haven't given much information to go on but it would appear that
your document has

\usepackage{pdftex}

which would generate the error you state. I have not heard of any such
package, so just simply not trying to load it would stop the error
but I can't suggest what you should do instead.


(This isn't really the right list for latex queries, you might be better
at for example http://tex.stackexchange.com)


David

[Robin Fairbairns]

Post by Bill Tottle
I have downloaded the reduced size Latex package,

what exactly do you mean by that? where did you download from?

Post by Bill Tottle
but
when I started to write a document an error message keeps coming up.
It says 'pdftex.sty not found'. I have tried to locate it on my pc but
its not there. I have also tried to find it on CTAN but its not there
also. Have I done something wrong or does this file actually exist
somewhere and I cant find it? Please advise if you can.

what were you hoping to achieve with this pdftex.sty? without knowing
that, it is difficult to guess what file it is, whose name you've
muddled into pdftex.sty -- i.e., "i need foo.sty to run on pdftex" -- in
that sentence, what is "foo"?

robin
(answer to the list, since i'm about to go to bed.)

[Bill Tottle]

Hi Robin,

Many thanks for replying but I've solved the problem.

Bill

----Original Message----
From: Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk

06/03/2014 23:39

To: <billtottle at tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: <pdftex at tug.org>
Subj: Re: [pdftex] pdftex.sty file
Bill Tottle <billtottle at tiscali.

Post by Bill Tottle
I have downloaded the reduced size Latex package,

what exactly do you mean by that? where did you download from?

but

Post by Bill Tottle
when I started to write a document an error message keeps

coming up.

Post by Bill Tottle
It says 'pdftex.sty not found'. I have tried to locate

it on my pc but

Post by Bill Tottle
its not there. I have also tried to find it on CTAN

but its not there

Post by Bill Tottle
also. Have I done something wrong or does this

file actually exist

Post by Bill Tottle
somewhere and I cant find it? Please advise if

you can.

what were you hoping to achieve with this pdftex.sty?

without knowing

that, it is difficult to guess what file it is, whose

name you've

muddled into pdftex.sty -- i.e., "i need foo.sty to run on

pdftex" -- in

that sentence, what is "foo"?
robin
(answer to the

list, since i'm about to go to bed.)

[Heiko Oberdiek]

Post by Bill Tottle
when I started to write a document an error message keeps coming up.
It says 'pdftex.sty not found'. I have tried to locate it on my pc but
its not there.

Such a package is not known to me. Perhaps you wanted to write an
*option*, e.g.:

\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}

If the square brackets were exchanged by curly braces, TeX would start
looking for `pdftex.sty` instead of `graphicx.sty` and option `pdftex`.

BTW, in many cases option `pdftex` is not even needed, because many
packages can detect pdfTeX in PDF mode (e.g. via package `ifpdf').

Yours sincerely
Heiko Oberdiek