The thumbpdf file, used to insert thumbnails into pdflatex documents, has two problems. First, a perl problem at line 23. I'm not a perl expert, so there is probably a better fix than this patch, but it works for me: *** /usr/bin/thumbpdf.OLD Mon Oct 2 15:11:08 2000 --- /usr/bin/thumbpdf Mon Oct 2 15:11:29 2000 *************** *** 20,26 **** # for installation purposes. # my $file = "thumbpdf.pl"; ! my $program = uc($file =~ /^(\w+)/, $1); my $version = "1.11"; my $date = "2000/01/19"; my $author = "Heiko Oberdiek"; --- 20,26 ---- # for installation purposes. # my $file = "thumbpdf.pl"; ! my $program = uc($file); my $version = "1.11"; my $date = "2000/01/19"; my $author = "Heiko Oberdiek"; Second, pdftex was linked to the wrong version of PNG. I see that others have previously reported this problem.
Fixed in tetex-1.0.7-9.