PdfTeX
Sign in to save__NOTOC__ The computer program pdfTeX, sometimes typeset as '''''', is an extension of Knuth's typesetting program TeX, and was originally written and developed into a publicly usable product by as a part of the work for his PhD thesis at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. The idea of making this extension to TeX was conceived during the early 1990s, when Jiří Zlatuška and Phil Taylor discussed some developmental ideas with Donald Knuth at Stanford University. Knuth later met Hàn Thế Thành in Brno during his visit to the Faculty of Informatics to receive an h
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Within Vinony's link graph, PdfTeX is referenced by 52 other articles, and connects out to WEB, Czech Republic and operating system.
It sits within the topics Free PDF software and Free TeX software.
Its subject is documented across 11 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Software.name
- pdfTeX
- Software.author
- Hàn Thế Thành
- Software.developer
- The pdfTeX team
- Software.latest release version
- 1.40.29
- Software.latest release date
- March 3, 2026
- Software.genre
- Typesetting
- Software.license
- GNU General Public License
- Software.operating_system
- Multiplatform
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- free software
- Official website
- tug.org/applications/pdftex
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- copyright license
- GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later
- writable file format
- readable file format
- TeX
- Stack Exchange tag
- tex.stackexchange.com/tags/pdftex
- software version identifier
- 1.40.27
- operating system
- Unix-like operating system
- source code repository URL
- www.tug.org/svn/pdftex
- derivative work
- LuaTeX
- published in
- TeX Live
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