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Suppose you feed a multi-page PDF into `\includepdf`. If you only want `pagecommand` or `picturecommand` to take effect on *some* pages, you normally must split the construct up into multiple invocations. E.g.

\includepdf[pages=1], pagecommand={\doStuffOnPageOne}]{file.pdf}
\includepdf[pages=2 ...

Indeed I tried nesting it inside the command to reduce the scope of it, and actually /that/ caused problems. So the \makeatletter must surround the command definition. Once I removed an \ifdraft statement I forgot about, it was all good.

Ah, thanks! That fixed it in my MWE.

For some reason the same approach did not fix it in my large complex document. I’ll have to see if I can narrow that down. In the failing case, \safepdfcomment is used inside an \includepdf option, like this:

\includepdf[pages=1,unit=1mm,pagecommand ...

Glad to hear you were able to use it. That gives me hope.

This code sample shows “\ifpc@gopt@final\else” causing an “undefined control sequence”:

\documentclass{article}

% Demonstrates populating a PDF annotation with text input from an external file.
%
% Bugs/Limitations/anti-features ...

It would sometimes be useful to write conditional code that depends on boolean values held by a parent package. E.g. the \pdfcomment package has the boolean “final”, which disables all PDF annotations in the document. There is some other logic in the document that should also be disabled when that ...

I am trying to do some simple character replacements on an input file and writing it to a file. The output produced by \StrSubstitute is quite bizarre. Here is a MWE:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{newfile} % furnishes \newoutputstream
\usepackage{catchfile} % furnishes \CatchFileDef ...

This thread describes how to input a text file and put the contents into a PDF annotation using the \pdfcomment command. Problems occur when the input text contains a blank line because \pdfcomment cannot handle it. According to the pdfcomment docs, linefeeds must be replaced with \textLF . I tried ...

Here is a minimal example:
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{pdfcomment}

\begin{document}
yada yada

\pdfcomment{This is a PDF annotation -- works as expected.}

\pdfcomment{\input{some_text.txt}} % the PDF comment is literally the text “some_text.txt”

yada yada
\end{document}

It compiles ...

I have a split 2 column page, one for each language. Using footnotes like normal is a problem because all the footnotes end up below the left column (the french column in this case). Every footnote has a french and english version, so I’ve created a split footnote. The problem is that the padding ...

I want numbered paragraphs and I want the numbers to be in the left margin. Example:


\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage[noend]{reledmac} % needed for \pstart & \pend to number paragraphs
\renewcommand{\thepstart}{{\textsuperscript{\fbox{\arabic{pstart}}}}} % ← this puts a box around the ...