July 2005 - ntg-pdftex - NTG Mailing Lists

input
by Hans Hagen 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

Hi, how about \pdfinput {filename} \pdfopenin {filename} \pdfopenout {filename} and maybe even one that accepts a hex encoded string \pdfinput hex {filename} \pdfopenin hex {filename} \pdfopenout hex {filename} Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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\pdfpagesresources?
by Pawel Jackowski 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

Hi there, what do you think about adding \pdfpagesresources primitive toks list? > Thanh: > the answer is simple: nobody ever asked for it, and I don't > need it for myself :). If considered it can be added without > problems. I agree we can live without \pdfpagesresources, as well as we could without \pdfpagesattr. Hovever, collecting named resources per document is much easier than per page. In many cases we don't need different /Resources dict for each page and globally assigned (identical) \pdfpageresources toks list is unnecessarily written into PDF output each time the page is shipped out. It makes a difference for big documents. Of course one can save some time and space by writing resources as objects and storing object rerefences in \pdfpageresources. But to make things cool I'd opt to add primitive \pdfpagesresources toks list. ? -- Pawe/l Jackowski P.Jackowski(a)gust.org.pl

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[ pdftex-Bugs-377 ] unqoute image filenames not only on windows
by noreply＠sarovar.org 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

Bugs item #377, was opened at 2005-07-02 21:43 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=493&aid=377&group_id=106 Category: Image inclusion Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Georg Baum (baum) Assigned to: Martin Schröder (oneiros) Summary: unqoute image filenames not only on windows Initial Comment: The file pdftex-1.30.0-rc1/src/texk/web2c/pdftexdir/writeimg.c contains in the function readfile() a code block to unqoute file names which is inside #ifdef WIN32 ... #endif. This code should be enabled on all platforms (or at least on linux), since quoted filenames (which are necessary if the name contains spaces) do not only work well on linux. Thanks, Georg ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Heiko Oberdiek (oberdiek) Date: 2005-07-04 13:13 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1276 Hello, it is a very bad idea, quotes are perfectly legal in linux and other operating systems. Also image inclusion is done by \pdfximage that uses <general text>, by <general text>, text surrounded by curly braces (catcode 1 and 2) *all* possible file names can be given including quotes and spaces. We need rather new primitives for \input, \openin, and \openout to provide the file names as <general text>. The all file names can be given without the need of quoting at all. See also the discussion about \pdfinput in the ntg-pdftex mailing list. Yours sincerely Heiko <oberdiek(a)uni-freiburg.de> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=493&aid=377&group_id=106

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[ pdftex-Patches-376 ] Uniform and Normal Distribution Pseudo-random numbers patch
by noreply＠sarovar.org 03 Jul '05

03 Jul '05

Patches item #376, was opened at 2005-06-27 16:45 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=495&aid=376&group_id=106 Category: Primitives Group: v1.30.0 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Taco Hoekwater (taco) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: Uniform and Normal Distribution Pseudo-random numbers patch Initial Comment: See the patch file itself or the mailing list for actual usage and comments. Requested by Pawel. It is intented to be applied after tex.pch (as usual) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=495&aid=376&group_id=106

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[ pdftex-Bugs-377 ] unqoute image filenames not only on windows
by noreply＠sarovar.org 02 Jul '05

02 Jul '05

Bugs item #377, was opened at 2005-07-02 21:43 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=493&aid=377&group_id=106 Category: Image inclusion Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Georg Baum (baum) Assigned to: Martin Schröder (oneiros) Summary: unqoute image filenames not only on windows Initial Comment: The file pdftex-1.30.0-rc1/src/texk/web2c/pdftexdir/writeimg.c contains in the function readfile() a code block to unqoute file names which is inside #ifdef WIN32 ... #endif. This code should be enabled on all platforms (or at least on linux), since quoted filenames (which are necessary if the name contains spaces) do not only work well on linux. Thanks, Georg ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=493&aid=377&group_id=106

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