[pdftex] Reference XObjects

[Martin Schröder]

2007/10/27, Martin Schröder <martin at oneiros.de>:
> The byte offset in the xref of PDFs has only 9 digits, so a PDF can
> not be larger then 10GB. LFS is Large File Support.

Turns out I was wrong. :-)

PDF <= 1.4 is limited to 10GB.

If you use compressed object streams (PDF 1.5++,
\pdfobjcompresslevel=3), the size is unlimited (pdftex 1.40.x only
works for <4GiB, though).

Best
   Martin