[pdftex] redundant objects with includegraphics

Han The Thanh thanh at informatics.muni.cz
Thu May 3 16:00:35 CEST 2001


Hi,


> if I do it, I would try to keep track of all copied objects from pdf
> images. Each pdf image would have a list of all objects that have been
> copied from the image. Images that have the same file name would share
> their object list. When an object is being copied, its number is checked
> whether it has been copied yet to avoid duplicates. This way only needed
> objects are copied and just once. The penalty might be in the running time,
> but I really doubt it matters. The rest like syntax & use with
> \includegraphics remains tha same.

I have been thinking more of this issue and it seems to be quite feasible
to do so. If you didn't start yet I will give a try.

Regards,
Thanh



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