[pdftex] pdf objects with references to each other?

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Hans Hagen wrote:

> \setbox \yourbox {\immediate\pdfobj{...}\xdef\nicepointer{\the\pdflastobj}}
                    ^^^^^^^^^^
Because of \immediate an empty pdf object is created.
So a \pdfobj{} without referencing does not generate
an empty object in the pdf file, only the xref table
is enlarged by a free number.

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>