[NTG-pdftex] pdfcurpageref -- does it make sense?

[The Thanh Han]

Hi,

using the 2nd pass processing then would solve this problem without the
need to introduce a new primitive. One can record the page numbers in
1st run, and use those numbers in 2nd run as argument to \pdfpageref. 
Or am I missing some point?

Thanh

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 10:11:31AM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
> The Thanh Han wrote:
> 
> >I wonder how Hans and other would solve this problem. tex doesn't have a
> >concept of `current page' while processing the input token list. The
> >page number can be detected reliably only using 2nd pass processing, as
> >the page where some material ends up is known only at shipping phase.
> 
> I use two pass solutions for that.
> 
> I can imagine a primitive \pdfpageobjnum  that expands at shipout time, i.e.
> 
>   \pdfobj{.... \pdfpageobjnum\space 0 R}
> 
> in this case \pdfpageobjnum is like pdfsavepos, during shipout, those 
> placeholders in the shipped out box  are resolved; outside the otr/shipout 
> routine it's zero, so
> 
>   \count15=\pdfpageobjnum
> 
> leads to \count15 being 0
> 
> I guess that the reason for this request is that in media objects one needs 
> to refer to the page where the object (or its visualization) ends up, a kin 
> dof circular reference between definition and usage; since these page 
> references remain in the object (and are not used elsewhere) the delayed 
> resolution during shipout is ok;
> 
> >It is possible to provide a primitive which returns the *next* page object
> >number, but IMHO it doesn't make any sense.
> 
> indeed, things can end up many pages later (think of intermediate float 
> flushing)
> 
> Hans
> 
> 
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