[luatex] Undefined Control Sequence with attachfile package

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2017-07-12 at 17:07:34 -0500, Jon Hood wrote:

 > Attempting to run lualatex on the following results in an error. Am I
 > doing something wrong with the attachfile package? It says that it
 > supports luatex, and it works fine when I use pdflatex...
 > 
 > $ lualatex --version
 > This is LuaTeX, Version 1.0.4 (TeX Live 2017/Cygwin)
 > 
 > $ grep -A 1 ProvidesPackage
 > /usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/attachfile/attachfile.sty
 > \ProvidesPackage{attachfile}
 >     [2016/09/18 v1.9 PDF 1.3+ file attachment]
 > 
 > $ cat mwe.tex
 > \documentclass{article}
 > \usepackage{attachfile}
 > \begin{document}
 > \attachfile[icon=Paperclip, mimetype=text/plain]{mwe.tex}
 > \end{document}
 > 
 > $ lualatex mwe
 > This is LuaTeX, Version 1.0.4 (TeX Live 2017/Cygwin)
 >  restricted system commands enabled.
 > (./mwe.tex
 > LaTeX2e <2017-04-15>
 > (using cache: /var/lib/texmf/luatex-cache/generic)
 > luaotfload | main : initialization completed in 0.141 seconds
 > Babel <3.10> and hyphenation patterns for 1 language(s) loaded.
 > (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
 > Document Class: article 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
 > (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo(load luc: /var/lib/texmf/luate
 > x-cache/generic/fonts/otl/lmroman10-regular.luc)))
 > (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/attachfile/attachfile.sty
 > (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ifpdf.sty)
 > (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
 > (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/calc.sty)
 > (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/color.sty
 > (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics-cfg/color.cfg)
 > (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics-def/luatex.def
 > (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/infwarerr.sty)
 > (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ltxcmds.sty)))
 > (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/hyperref.sty
 > (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/hobsub-hyperref.sty
 > (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/hobsub-generic.sty
 > (/usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/oberdiek/oberdiek.luatex.lua)))
 > (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ifxetex/ifxetex.sty)
 > (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/oberdiek/auxhook.sty)
 > (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/oberdiek/kvoptions.sty)
 > (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/pd1enc.def)
 > (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/latexconfig/hyperref.cfg)
 > (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/url/url.sty))
 > 
 > Package hyperref Message: Driver (autodetected): hluatex.
 > 
 > (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/hluatex.def
 > (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/oberdiek/rerunfilecheck.sty))) (./mwe.aux)
 > (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/mkii/supp-pdf.mkii
 > [Loading MPS to PDF converter (version 2006.09.02).]
 > ) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/nameref.sty
 > (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/gettitlestring.sty)) (./mwe.out)
 > (./mwe.out)<<mwe.tex>>
 > ! Undefined control sequence.
 > \atfi at set@appearance  ...x }}\immediate \pdfxform
 >                                                   \atfi at appearancebox \edef ...
 > 
 > l.4 ...icon=Paperclip, mimetype=text/plain]{mwe.tex}

Does it work if you add the line

  \let\pdfxform\saveboxresource

to the preamble?

Some pdftex primitives were renamed in luatex recently.  I vaguely
remember that there is a LaTeX package which provides backwards
compatibility but I don't remember its name.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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