[pdftex] redundant objects with includegraphics

[Hans Hagen]

At 03:00 PM 5/3/01 +0200, Han The Thanh wrote:
>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.
 
Maybe some font dicts can also be 'shared' this way, 

Hans 
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