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The pdfpages package does not seem to have either a verbose or quiet option. I am compiling a big document and the include messages from pdfpages are obscuring the warnings from other places in the document. Is there a way to quiet these messages or another method for drawing my attention to the warnings?

Werner
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    What do these messages look like? Please post a piece from your .log file. – Werner Jul 19 '13 at 03:12
  • AdamTindaleCV.pdf, id=273, page=1, 614.295pt x 794.97pt> <use AdamTindaleCV.pdf, page 1> <use AdamTindaleCV.pdf, page 1> <use AdamTindaleCV.pdf, page 1> <use AdamTindaleCV.pdf, page 1> <use AdamTindaleCV.pdf, page 1> [16 <./AdamTindaleCV.pdf>] <AdamTindaleCV.pdf, id=312, page=2, 614.295pt x 794.97pt>

    The file is about 300 pages, so there are a lot of these messages. Maybe I should just be grepping the log file for warnings?

     – Adam Tindale Jul 19 '13 at 03:54

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Yes you can subdue the spew. Here's what is at work...

Essentially pdfpages uses graphicx (which in turn uses graphics) to insert PDF pages. And, all graphics-related error/warning/info and log messages are displayed using four macros:

\def\GPT@error{\@PackageError{pdftex.def}}%
\def\GPT@warn{\@PackageWarning{pdftex.def}}%
\ifx\Gin@log\@undefined
  \def\Gin@log{\message}%
\fi
\def\GPT@info{\@PackageInfoNoLine{pdftex.def}}%

You could give pdfpages the silent treatment by adding

\makeatletter
% From pdftex.def
\let\GPT@error\@gobble
\let\GPT@warn\@gobble
\let\Gin@log\@gobble
\let\GPT@info\@gobble
% From latex.ltx
\def\@providesfile#1[#2]{%
  %\wlog{File: #1 #2}% <--- remove writing to .log
  \@addtofilelist{ #2}%
  \endgroup}
\makeatother

The above redefines the output messaging components to gobble their arguments, except for \@providefile, for which it only turns off the .log writing component. You may not be interested in redefining the error/warning output.

However, this removes all graphics-related error/display messaging. Of course, it would be possible to perform this selectively by momentarily switching things off specifically for \includepdf.

Werner
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  • This does suppress the output but now I receive this error. ! Package hyperref Error: This should not happen! (hyperref) Missing version of `hpdftex.def'. – Adam Tindale Jul 19 '13 at 05:13
  • @AdamTindale: A minimal document using the above + hyperref doesn't produce this error. Could you provide more detail so one can reproduce the problem? – Werner Jul 19 '13 at 05:19
  • the problem was that I included that snippet in the wrong place. Once I put after including hyperref the problem disappeared. – Adam Tindale Jul 21 '13 at 13:30