[DVIPDFMx] Filter specification in pdf:stream command

[Matthias Franz]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 05:58:14PM +0200, Dino Petrucci wrote:
> It seems that "pdf:stream" command, in "dvipdfmx" (dvipdfmx-20090708),
> doesn't accept any filter.
> I tried any kind of filter name (and without filter 
> specification): I always get "/Filter/FlateDecode". Why?

Hi Dino,

dvipdfmx doesn't look at a filter entry in the stream dictionary -
it uses flate compression for all streams unless compression is turned
off via the "-z 0" command line option. Is it important to have a
non-compressed metadata stream?

Best,
-- 
Matthias