[pdftex] Clipping graphics

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 11:51:19AM +0200, Stéphane Mancini wrote:

> I would like to know why, while clipping a pdf page to view
> only a part of it, the whole page is kept in the produced pdf.

It is the easiest way. The page do not need to be interpreted.

> Is there a way not to embed the whole page and just keep what's in the 
> viewport ?

pdfTeX is not a PDF interpreter, so it does not understand
the contents of a page object and therefore embeds the full
page.

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