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26 Apr
2008
26 Apr
'08
1 a.m.
My sincere thanks to all who responded; I have reverted to an earlier version which did not use \halign, and I can once again process all images. I think that in retrospect, expecting PdfTeX to buffer all 4500 images while it computed the widths of the columns of an \halign was probably expecting too much. ** Phil.