Hi, I wonder how Hans and other would solve this problem. tex doesn't have a concept of `current page' while processing the input token list. The page number can be detected reliably only using 2nd pass processing, as the page where some material ends up is known only at shipping phase. It is possible to provide a primitive which returns the *next* page object number, but IMHO it doesn't make any sense. Thanh
Feature Requests item #252, was opened at 2004-12-14 16:47 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=496&aid=252&group_id=106
Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Nobody (None) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: current page object number
Initial Comment: Dear PdfTeX-developpers,
sometimes the reference to the current page object is needed within the implementation of another pdf object.
As an example may serve the `Screen Annotation' several interactive PDF features rely on.
Currently, the \pdfpageref command, which takes a page number as argument, can be used for this purpose.
It is difficult, however, to maintain a reliable page counter as the attached file demonstrates. It uses the `everyshi' package by M. Schroeder.
On the first line of every page a wrong object number is being output.
It would be very nice to have a command like \pdfcurrentpageref to be implemented in pdftex.
Thanks for your attention,
Alexander Grahn