[pdftex] option to suppress the /Info dictionary

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Sun, 17 Apr 2022 14:10:34 -0600 schrieb Karl Berry:

>     Subject: [pdftex] option to suppress the /Info dictionary
> 
> Thanh implemented \pdfomitinfodict. If its value is nonzero, /Info is
> omitted completely. I merged the change into web2c, so I imagine the
> next time Akira rebuilds his binaries, it will show up for Windows.
> (pdftex r877, texlive r63056) --best, karl.

miktex updated its binaries and so I could finally test it.

\pdfomitinfodict=1 suppresses the /Info in the trailer:

trailer
<< /Size 12
/Root 10 0 R
/ID [<E3B650E94B5403F8A4EE9CCC132D4178>
<E3B650E94B5403F8A4EE9CCC132D4178>] >>


so that is fine. But the info dictionary itself is still there

11 0 obj
<<
/Producer (MiKTeX pdfTeX-1.40.24)
/Creator (TeX)
/CreationDate (D:20221129143703+01'00')
/ModDate (D:20221129143703+01'00')
/Trapped /False
/PTEX.Fullbanner (This is MiKTeX-pdfTeX 4.12.0 (1.40.24))
>>
endobj

the object is not referenced, so it is only dangling around.

With luatex both the reference in trailer and the object are gone.


-- 
Ulrike Fischer 
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/