[tex-live] possible problem with thumbpdf

Hartmut Henkel hartmut_henkel at gmx.de
Fri Jul 9 00:59:15 CEST 2010


On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, Heiko Oberdiek wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 09:44:24PM +0200, Hartmut Henkel wrote:
> > On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> > >
> > > A quite convenient way to get the MediaBox is to use pdfinfo,
> > > which already supports object stream compression.  TL provides
> > > binaries for all supported platforms and I suppose that MikTeX
> > > provides it too.
> >
> > fwiw, luatex allows to parse PDF natively (using xpdf functions via
> > a Lua binding).
>
> Undocumented? At least I couldn't find this in the manual of LuaTeX
> 0.60.2.

it's in trunk only. Terse documentation see "epdf library" (needs fresh
manual generation).

Regards, Hartmut



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