[pdftex] pdf objects with references to each other?

[Hans Hagen]

At 03:33 PM 3/31/2002 +1000, you wrote:
>Hi Ross,
>
>Ross Moore wrote:
> >
> > Hi Bob,
> >
> > > I can't figure out a way to do this with pdftex.
> > > It seems to me that I need to be able to tell pdftex to
> > > choose some number that has not yet been used
> >
> > You cannot do this.
> >
>
>I was wondering whether to ask for new primitives so that
>it could be done. But Heiko's solution works.

indeed, but consider it a hack; what we need is something:

   \pdflockobject (\edef\reference{\the\pdflastobj}

and

   \pdfnextobject\reference

(i'll communicate this with thanh)

Hans
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