[ pdftex-Bugs-606 ] Forbidden ... while scanning ???
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Bugs item #606, was opened at 2006-09-16 22:28 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=493&aid=606&group_id=106 Category: Primitives Group: v1.40.0 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Hartmut Henkel (hhenkel) Assigned to: Hartmut Henkel (hhenkel) Summary: Forbidden ... while scanning ??? Initial Comment: \pdftrailer {abc \bye gives ! Forbidden control sequence found while scanning text of \pdftrailer. but \pdfximage {abc \bye or \pdfliteral {abc \bye give ! Forbidden control sequence found while scanning text of ???. Instead of these three question marks there should be the name of the primitive. ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Comment By: Hartmut Henkel (hhenkel) Date: 2006-09-17 21:10
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yes, the patch works, thanks a lot! But there are in fact
many more \pdf... primitives that suffer from this problem,
actually any with a scan_keyword call before the
scan_pdf_ext_toks. After the way how it's done in
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Comment By: Hartmut Henkel (hhenkel) yes, the patch works, thanks a lot! But there are in fact many more \pdf... primitives that suffer from this problem, actually any with a scan_keyword call before the scan_pdf_ext_toks. After the way how it's done in
That's what I feared, and I prefer an analysis by an expert. Taco? :-) The problem is minor, anyway.
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=, it seems that a new variable save_cur_cs is not needed if one uses k for this purpose. Needs change of a few k uses to j. But problematic is \pdfoutline as it has another scan_pdf_ext_toks for the attr keyword.
So the problem has been with pdftex for years.
Wouldn't these many changes be too risky for 1.40.0?
The timeframe for the release is delayed anyway: we still need to update the manual (e.g. for \pdfdraftmode and the colorstack) and the pdftex news is missing. If this can be fixed easily, why wait? Best Martin
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