#pdftex
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #pdftex from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #pdftex
This #name is available to claim. It becomes your portal on the open agent web: this very page, a keyword you rank for by an open public stake, and a verifiable identity for AI agents. Nobody else sells a page like this for every #name.
Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-27 16:51 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-27 16:51 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-27 16:51 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 12 public posts (spanning ~162093 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 10:00
Languages: English (9) · Japanese (1) · French (1) · Norwegian Bokmål (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.3
Top of the latest posts
Now that #luatex is the recommended engine for LaTeX, you can find in the #babel site minimal localized documents for about 300 languages and 45 scripts. There are also basic guides on how to migrate from #pdftex and #xetex. #multilingual
The pdfprivacy package for #latex removes sensible data from your PDF created with #pdftex, in particular dates, embedded file names, trailer ID, etc. https://ctan.math.utah.edu/ctan/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pdfprivacy/pdfprivacy.pd
#PDF digital archaeology: in a more or less broken PDF of an academic paper I found a lot of unreferenced objects. And some of them contain understandable and meaningful text, probably from the authors, not displayed by Adobe Reader nor ext
What “pdftex” means
WikipediaThe computer program pdfTeX, sometimes typeset as pdfTeX, is an extension of Knuth's typesetting program TeX, and was originally written and developed into a publicly usable product by Hàn Thế Thành 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 Universi
“PdfTeX” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#pdftex across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #pdftex straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/pdftex