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Bug#260132: tetex-bin: what does pdftosrc do?



On 20.07.04 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> schrieb:
> > On 20.07.04 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:

Hi,

> >> Googling, I found that 
> >>   http://w3.msi.vxu.se/~pku/MacOSX_TeX/2002a/msg01029.html
> >> gives some idea for what it can be used.
> >> 
> > Must have missed that. Preliminary man page attached.
> 
> I think this is not the whole story. I cannot give you references,
> but I think that one can generally include several "stream objects"
> into a pdf file. The objects need not be TeX source code, it can as
> well be an arbitrary text or just any file.
> 
Well, I didn't say so. Of course I can put different objects into an
pdf-file. normal pictures are included as objects and streams. I
justs wanted to keep that page as short as possible.

> See e.g.
>   http://www.sics.se/~joe/erlpdf.pdf "Using PDF to distribute code"
> (seems to be quite nice to read!). Probably it is also explained in 
>   http://partners.adobe.com/asn/acrobat/sdk/public/docs/PDFReference15_v5.pdf
> but, as the author of erlpdf.pdf writes:
> 
> 
Will have a look at that.

Thanks,
  Hilmar 
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sigmentation fault



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