[pdftex] redundant objects with includegraphics

[Stephan Lehmke]

Han The Thanh wrote on Fri, 27 Apr 2001 14:53:46 +0200:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 11:59:14PM +0200, Andreas Matthias wrote:
> > 
> > Is it possible to change the include routine and to
> > prohibit redundant objects in future pdftex versions?
> 
> it is of course possible. The problem is that it is not trivial to do so.
> I did work hard to make pdftex check and remove duplicates of font files,
> and this seems to be a worse nightmare. Maybe some nice day when I have a
> real need of this feature.

This would be much appreaciated indeed.

Making proceedings/books from contributed pdfs and adding 
decoration with pdfpages is becoming increasingly popular.

regards
Stephan

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