[OS X TeX] problems with \pdfliteral

[Stephen Moye]

Yes, this was indeed a hastily-written, flawed, incomplete and ill- 
framed message. I had some problems when opening TeXShop-produced  
PDF. I wrote up some notes about it in TeXShop. I then copied and  
pasted the roughly latter 1/3 of the notes into a mail message and  
sent it off hastily and never looked back. Worst of all, the problem  
was the result of a typing error on my part. In the words of Homer  
Simpson: "Doh!"

Apologies for the wasted bandwidth.



On Jul 22, 2006, at 9:14 PM, Ross Moore wrote:

>
> On 23/07/2006, at 12:24 AM, Stephen Moye wrote:
>
>> No matter how I do it:
>>
>> \newtoks\colortoks
>> \newcommand{\whatcolor}[1]{\colortoks={#1 }}
>> \pdfliteral{\the colortoks k}
>
> Don't you mean something like this ?
>
> \newtoks\colortoks
> \newcommand{\whatcolor}[1]{\colortoks={#1 }}
> \whatcolor{0 0 0 1}
> \pdfliteral{\the\colortoks k}
>
>
>>
>> or
>>
>> \newcommand{\whatcolor}[1]{\def\colorit{#1 }}
>> \expandafter\pdfliteral\expandafter{\colorit k}
>
> Here \colorit isn't defined until \whatcolor has been used.
>
>
>>
>> I end up with an error (and a blank page where \pdfliteral is  
>> used) in Acrobat:
>>
>> "There were too many arguments."
>>
>> but no error at all in TeXShop or Preview.
>>
>> Could somebody enlighten me about what is happening, and a  
>> workaround?
>>
>> I'm glad I decided to try this in Acrobat, just as a test...
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>>
>> SGM
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> 	Ross
>
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