On 2002-07-26 11:43:40 +0200, Fabrice Popineau wrote:
> The problem is in web2c/pdftexdir/pdftoepdf.cc :
>
> // Called when an image has been written and it's resources in
> // image_tab are freed. We cannot deallocate the PdfDocument yet, as
> // future pages of the same document may be embedded. As an
> // optimization, we do delete it if it's a one-page document.
> void epdf_delete()
> {
>
> // Akira Kakuto has suggested to make epdf_delete empty, so
> #if 0
> PdfDocument *pdf_doc = (PdfDocument *) epdf_doc;
> xref = pdf_doc->xref;
> if (pdf_doc->doc->getCatalog()->getNumPages() == 1)
> delete_document(pdf_doc);
> #endif
> }
>
> This is really weird, because that means files are never closed during
> the compilation, but only when the program exits because the
> destructors for PDFDoc objects are called. Restoring the deletion here
> will make things work as long as we are using 1 page pdf
> documents. But I think that the way included pdf documents are handled
> should be reworked, perhaps following Hans suggestion to add a command
> to explicitly close the document.
Shall (and can) we do this for 1.10a or will we postpone it till 1.11a?
Adding a closing command (like \pdfximageclose) makes sense to
me.
Best regards
Martin
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