[tex-live] dvipdfmx: Two (related) special queries

[Zdenek Wagner]

For some reason I have a strange mess of TL 2016 and 2017, something is
definitely wrong in my computer. I have to make preparations for tomorrow's
important meeting so I will continue the test maybe tomorrow evening.



Zdeněk Wagner
http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz

2017-07-03 17:44 GMT+02:00 Joseph Wright <joseph.wright at morningstar2.co.uk>:

> On 03/07/2017 15:21, Shunsaku Hirata wrote:
> > Hi Joseph,
> >
> > (Sorry for sending again. I forgot to send it to TeXLive Mailing List
> too)
> >
> > 2017-07-03 17:05 GMT+09:00 Joseph Wright <joseph.wright at morningstar2.
> co.uk>:
> >
> >> The first issue is the equivalent of "\pdfliteral direct{...}". That
> >> should be \special{pdf:literal direct ...}/\special{pdf:code ...}.
> >> However, if one tries to do that to put a comment in the PDF stream (see
> >> below) it fails.
> >
> > Dvipdfmx removes leading comment-lines and white space characters.
> >
> >> The second query is about the compress level. I can set that at the
> >> dvipdfmx level using the -z0 switch. However, I'm not entirely clear if
> >> that is the same as applying
> >>
> >>     \pdfcompresslevel=0
> >>     \pdfobjcompresslevel=0
> >>
> >> in pdfTeX.
> >
> > The 'z' option does not control the use of object stream.
> > The "-C 0x40" option flag is the same as applying \pdfobjcompresslevel=0.
>
> Thanks for this: most useful.
>
> Joseph
>
>
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