[DVIPDFMx] possibility of forward references?

[Oleg Parashchenko]

Hello Alexander,

On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 09:11:18 +0200
Alexander Grahn <A.Grahn at hzdr.de> wrote:

> Dear Oleg,
> 
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 08:54:11AM +0200, Oleg Parashchenko wrote:
> >ET BT [@myobj]TJ ET BT /F1 9.963 Tf 44.83 -9.96 Td[(bbb)]TJ 186.68
> 
> I get the same. As I said before, object references may not be used
> directly in content streams, according to the PDF Spec.

Thank you for repeating this phrase. Somehow, due to xpdf does show the
text typeset as "BT 5 0 R ET", I missed your point. Indeed, you are
completely right, what I want is against the specification.

> They must be
> defined as Resources (i. e. mapped to names) in the /Resource dictionary
> of the page or XObject to which the content stream belongs. However, I
> don't know if this is possible for simple text strings.

Have not tested. Instead, for my goals, I switched to an alternative
solution (two-pass run of latex).

> 
> Alexander
> 


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