[pdftex] limitation in \pdfcatalog

Andreas Matthias amat at kabsi.at
Sun Jun 1 17:13:37 CEST 2003


Heiko Oberdiek wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 06:59:25PM +0100, Andreas Matthias wrote:
> 
>> Andreas Matthias wrote:
>> 
>>> There is an unlucky limitation in \pdfcatalog, which just allows to
>>> specify /either/ `user openactions' /or/ `goto openactions' in
>>> \pdfcatalog but /not both/.
>> 
>> This seems to be a restriction in the PDF Specification.
>> Sorry for the noise.
> 
> It's no noise, because PDF 1.2 knows the /Next entry in
> action dictionaries for other actions.

Yeah, that's it. Nifty. I didn't know about the /Next entry.
Time to study the PDF Specification more seriously.

Thanks
  Andreas



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