texi2pdf vs texi2dvi --pdf

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Karl, hi Heiko,

(please keep all the Cc, thanks)

On the debian side we received a bug report that seems to be related to
texi2dvi/pf.

Take the simple file:
\input thumbpdf.sty
\input texinfo
Hello World
@bye

It works with texi2dvi, but NOT with texi2pdf.

With texi2dvi I get:
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-1.40.12 (TeX Live 2011)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./foo.texi (/home/norbert/tl/2011/texmf-dist/tex/generic/thumbpdf/thumbpdf.sty

Package thumbpdf Warning: Missing driver name.

) (/home/norbert/tl/2011/texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex
Loading texinfo [version 2012-01-19.16]: pdf, fonts, markup, glyphs,
page headings, tables, conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc, environments,
defuns, macros, cross references, insertions,
(/home/norbert/tl/2011/texmf-dist/tex/generic/epsf/epsf.tex
This is `epsf.tex' v2.7.4 <14 February 2011>
) localization, formatting, and turning on texinfo input format.) [1] )
Output written on foo.dvi (1 page, 212 bytes).
Transcript written on foo.log.


(same with current devel version!)

BUt with texi2pdf I get:


This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-1.40.12 (TeX Live 2011)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./foo.texi (/home/norbert/tl/2011/texmf-dist/tex/generic/thumbpdf/thumbpdf.sty

Package thumbpdf Warning: Compressed PDF objects of PDF 1.5 are not supported.


Package thumbpdf Warning: Thumbnail data file `foo.tpt' not found.

) (/home/norbert/tl/2011/texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex
Loading texinfo [version 2012-01-19.16]: pdf, fonts, markup, glyphs,
page headings, tables, conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc, environments,
defuns, macros, cross references, insertions,
(/home/norbert/tl/2011/texmf-dist/tex/generic/epsf/epsf.tex
This is `epsf.tex' v2.7.4 <14 February 2011>
) localization, formatting, and turning on texinfo input format.) [1{/home/norb
ert/tl/2011/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] )</home/norbert/tl/2
011/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr10.pfb>
Output written on foo.pdf (1 page, 13370 bytes).
Transcript written on foo.log.
THUMBPDF 3.13, 2011/08/10 - Copyright (c) 1999-2011 by Heiko Oberdiek.
*** make png files / run Ghostscript ***
!!! Warning: MediaBox not found, using default resolution: 9 DPI
Processing pages 1 through 1.
[1]
*** make `thumbpdf.pdf' / run pdfTeX ***
*** parse `thumbpdf.pdf' ***
*** write `./foo.tpt' (pdfTeX thumbnail data) ***
*** clear temp files ***
*** ready. ***
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-1.40.12 (TeX Live 2011)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./foo.texi (/home/norbert/tl/2011/texmf-dist/tex/generic/thumbpdf/thumbpdf.sty

Package thumbpdf Warning: Compressed PDF objects of PDF 1.5 are not supported.

/home/norbert/tl/2011/texmf-dist/tex/generic/thumbpdf/thumbpdf.sty:486: Undefin
ed control sequence.
l.486 \RequirePackage
                     {ifluatex}[2010/03/01]
? 


According to the OP that *did* work with TL 2009 and the respective 
thumbpdf.sty.

Is there anything *we* have to change/do on the Debian side?
Is this a known problem?

Best wishes

Norbert
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