Feature Requests item #572, was opened at 2006-06-10 21:11 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=496&aid=572&group_id=106 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: ivo welch (iaw4) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: non-compression of pdfxform Initial Comment: would it be possible to add a feature to avoid compression of the user defined pdfxform stream? [goal: I want to define a string that I can then change via a shell/perl script in the .pdf file itself. I know I have to keep the same number of characters.] \newcount\XOBJA \setbox1=\hbox{12345678909876543210123456789} % this is a special string that one can later replace in the pdf file by hand \pdfxform 1 \XOBJA=\pdflastxform \begin{document} Here is my string on page \arabic{page}: \pdfrefxform \XOBJA \end{document} $ sed 's/12345678909876543210123456789/for user pdftex.../' < myfile.pdf I experimented with setting pdfcompresslevel and resetting it, but it is not reliable in when compression starts. in any case, I do not want the rest at low compression, just my own XOBJ xform. regards, /iaw ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=496&aid=572&group_id=106