[pdftex] Some problems with form Xobjects and \pdfliteral

[Paweł Jackowski]

Thomas,

> This new Resources and XObject dictionary are not merged with the ones
> produced by pdftex, so my entries are ignored by viewers. So I cannot
> create myself a name for my form XObjects.

Indeed, you can't.

> A solution to solve this is to let pdftex create himself the names, for
> this I have to use \pdfrefxobject. But this led to two problems :
[...]

Starting from 1.30.0 pdfTeX has a primitive \pdfxformname<objnum>. 
Doesn't that help you?

	\setbox0=\hbox{qq}
	\immediate\pdfxform0
	\tt/Fm\pdfxformname\pdflastxform
	\end

-- 
Pawe/l Jackowski
P.Jackowski at gust.org.pl