Bug#215248: [pdftex] Man page for pdftosrc

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 04.08.05 Heiko Oberdiek (oberdiek@uni-freiburg.de) wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 10:02:31PM +0200, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:

Hi all,

[man page of pdftosrc]
> 
> > there are many reasons not to regard pdftosrc as obsolete.
> > 
> > Adobe does not support all platforms, so there are many people
> > who have to use xpdf instead.
> 
> The attachted files can also be extracted by other tools such
> as pdftk (operation unpack_files).
> 
Hmm:

hille@preusse:~/t2$ more plain.tex
\pdfcompresslevel=0
\immediate\pdfobj
  stream attr {/Type /SourceFile /SourceName
  (TeX_sources)} file{\jobname.tex}
\pdfcatalog{/SourceObject \the\pdflastobj\space 0 R}
a
\bye
hille@preusse:~/t2$ pdftex plain.tex
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
<snip>
hille@preusse:~/t2$ ./pdftosrc plain.pdf
pdftosrc version 3.00
Source file extracted to TeX_sources
hille@preusse:~/t2$ diff TeX_sources plain.tex
hille@preusse:~/t2$ pdftk plain.pdf unpack_files output t1/
hille@preusse:~/t2$ ls -l t1/
total 0
hille@preusse:~$ pdftk --version

pdftk 1.12 a Handy Tool for Manipulating PDF Documents
<snip>
hille@preusse:~$

What am I missing?
I'm writing to you privately cause my posts to [pdftex] do not appear
on the list.

Regards,
  Hilmar
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