[XeTeX] Σχετ: Plain XeTeX, pdftitle, pdfinfo

[Jonathan Kew]

Hi Phil,

On 10/7/16 18:40, Philip Taylor wrote:
> The caveats are as follows :
>
>  1. a hook will need to be inserted into \shipout to insert the bounding
>     boxes on each page;
>  2. the colours will need to be converted to the desired output profile
>     using Adobe Acrobat;
>  3. the file will need to be reduced in size with Acrobat 4+
>     compatibility but with no image compression in order to convert it
>     to PDF 1.3;
>  4. the dimensions of the bounding boxes are for B5 in so-called "big
>     points" (Postscript points) and will need to be amended for other
>     page sizes;
>  5. \setboundingboxes will have to be called explicitly for the first
>     page only.

You could avoid the untidiness of #5 if you hook in \setboundingboxes 
differently, such that it's actually inserted into what is being shipped 
out, rather than added to the MVL to become part of the next page. E.g. 
if you're using the plain.tex \output routine, you could just sneak it 
onto the start of \makeheadline:

     \let \Makeheadline = \makeheadline
     \def \makeheadline {\setboundingboxes \Makeheadline}

Then every page should get the desired settings, AFAICS, without needing 
to do it manually on the first page (and without needing an explicit 
page count in the source).

JK