you will see the same in lualatex whether writing to pdf or dvi. The new luatex does not define most of the \pdfxxxx commands coming from pdftex, see the luatex manual.
The luatex85 package is available to alias most of the old names back as a quick fix until documents and packages are updated to use the new forms. David On 16 May 2016 at 23:27, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I expect this change was on purpose and it makes sense (because we are > exporting to DVI so perhaps \pdf* commands are meaningless?), but I just > wanted to confirm. > > Using the dvilualatex command, the following example compiled > successfully with up-to-date TL 2015, but fails with TL 2016 pretest. > > --------------------- > \documentclass[a4paper,english]{article} > \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} > \usepackage[latin9]{luainputenc} > > \makeatletter > > \pdfpageheight\paperheight > \pdfpagewidth\paperwidth > > > \makeatother > > \usepackage{babel} > \begin{document} > abc > \end{document} > --------------------- > > Attached is the .log file. > > Can someone confirm that this change was indeed intended and that it > is not expected to change back? > > Scott -- http://dpcarlisle.blogspot.com/