[pdftex] redundant objects with includegraphics

[Robin Fairbairns]

> > I suppose it would be nice to have
> > 
> >        \pdfembed pages 1 3 {a.pdf}
> >        \includegraphics[page=1]{a.pdf}
> >        \includegraphics[page=2]{a.pdf}
> >        \includegraphics[page=3]{a.pdf}
> > 
> > which would include exactly the necessary resources.
> 
> This would be nice. I think usually the user wants to
> include consecutive pages.
> 
> > 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.

r