[tex-live] [NTG-pdftex] Runtime limitations on open files?

David Kastrup dak at gnu.org
Fri Aug 17 23:08:05 CEST 2007


"Martin Schröder" <martin at oneiros.de> writes:

> 2007/8/17, David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org>:
>> "near to impossible", "easy", "trivial": those are synonyms only for
>> mathematicians.  And counterexamples just prove "not impossible".
>
> Stop.
>
> Let's get back to the facts: I can easily include 10000 different pdfs
> on one page (and claim that the number of files is only limited by
> memory) -- when \pdfximage is \immediate (which is normally is not).
> This works on Linux. Does this not work on Windows?

Can't check during the weekend.  What does it mean for an image to be
immediate?  Probably something different than for a write...  One
would need to patch up \includegraphics when using this with LaTeX,
right?

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum


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