[dvipdfmx] man example about pdf:trailerid

Shunsaku Hirata shunsaku.hirata74 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 5 23:02:44 CEST 2020


Hi Frédéric,

Thank you for the report.
I will fix this.

Thanks,
Shunsaku Hirata


2020-06-05 2:19 GMT+09:00, Frédéric Moulins via dvipdfmx <dvipdfmx at tug.org>:
> Hi,
>
> in the dvipdfmx man page, the usage example of the `pdf:trailerid`
> command seems to have an extra '0' after the '9' in the second PDF
> string.
> ```
> \special{pdf:trailerid [ (0123456789abcdef) (01234567890abcdef) ]}
> ```
> Since both strings are checked to be 16 bytes, trying out the example
> doesn't work.
>
> Maybe an example with hex strings would be useful, like:
> ```
> \special{pdf:trailerid [
>     <00112233445566778899aabbccddeeff>
>     <00112233445566778899aabbccddeeff>
> ]}
> ```
> as it is convenient for a user to configure the ID strings with an MD5
> hash (or any 128-bit hash) of some parameters or content identifying
> the file for example.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Frédéric Moulins
>
>



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