[pdftex] redundant objects with includegraphics

[Andreas Matthias]

From: "Robin Fairbairns" <Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk>

> > > For the moment, however, I don't think I want to do this
> > > 
> > >        \pdfembed pages 1-3,5,17-42,59,66-78 {a.pdf}
> > > 
> > > yet :-)
> > 
> > This one would be even nicer :-)
> 
> isn't that what pdfpages does?  i've never looked at its insides.

Yes, it does. But with the help of \includegraphics. And
that's why the file size increases that much.

Andreas