On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 09:43:34PM +0200, Martin Schröder wrote:
On 2005-06-25 03:52:01 +0200, Heiko Oberdiek wrote:
New in patch EscapeAndOther: * \pdfcreationdate * \pdffilemoddate * \pdffilesize * \pdfmdfivesum * \pdffiledump * \pdfshellescape * \pdfmatch and \pdflastmatch * Start with bug fix: quotes are legal in other operating systems than windows.
And \pdffiledump. What does it do?
Sorry, I have forgotten the description:
\pdffiledump [offset <int>] [length <int>] <general text>
It returns a hex dump of file, given in <general text>,
starting at given offset or 0 with given length.
\pdffiledump length 20 {abc.bmp}
Reads the first twenty bytes of abc.bmp in binary mode and
returns them as hex string.
Uses: a lot, eg. inspecting the file header to get
size information of bitmap files (eg. for latex/dvips).
Or it could be used to read ucs2/4 files, recode them
and reading (\scantokens, \pdfunescapehex) them as utf-8.
Yours sincerely
Heiko