Re: [NTG-pdftex] pdflatex includegraphics eats newline of stream

8 Jan 2014

      Hi Peter and Karl,
I think I found the reason:

In [pdftexdir/pdftoepdf.cc, line 603], a stream is written, and
pdf_newline() is called after it:
    } else if (obj->isStream()) {
        initDictFromDict(obj1, obj->streamGetDict());
        pdf_puts("<<\n");
        copyDict(&obj1);
        pdf_puts(">>\n");
        pdf_puts("stream\n");
        copyStream(obj->getStream()->getUndecodedStream());
        pdf_newline();
        pdf_puts("endstream");  // can't simply write pdfendstream()

However, this pdf_newline is optional [pdftexdir/utils.c, line 161]:
  void pdf_newline(void)
  {
      if (pdflastbyte != '\n')
          pdf_puts("\n");
  }

The new line should be always written using pdf_puts("\n") instead of
pdf_newline() to have a correct stream length.

Best,
Florian

Re: [NTG-pdftex] pdflatex includegraphics eats newline of stream

Florian Breitwieser