[pdftex] Man page for pdftosrc

Heiko Oberdiek oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de
Thu Aug 4 01:08:38 CEST 2005


On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 09:53:37PM +0100, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Heiko Oberdiek wrote:
> >Since AR 7/Linux and AR 6/Other, attachted files (see attachfile package)
> >can be extracted by normal user without the need of special programs.
> >Therefore I would consider pdftosrc obsolete for the purpose of
> >attaching and extracing files.
> 
> I was going to write the same as what you said above, but I wanted to add 
> that attachfile.sty as shipped is broken and requires the small obvious 
> fix below (to set /Subtype correctly as per PDF specs).

Yes, I know, I have already written a "version 2" with
dvips support, object reuse and some more. Currently
I am thinking about rewriting it because of some new
ideas and possibilities.

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



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