Are there macros that behave like \pdfximage and \pdflastximagepages but can be compiled with XeLaTeX?

Question

The following code can be compiled with pdflatex but not xelatex.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx,multido}
\begin{document}
\pdfximage{something.pdf}
\multido{\i=1+1}{\the\pdflastximagepages}{%
    \fbox{\includegraphics[page=\i,scale=0.25]{something}}
    \endgraf
}
\end{document}

The idea is to include each page of something.pdf as a separate image. I don't want to use pdfpages package and I want to use xelatex.

Are there macros that behave like \pdfximage and \pdflastximagepages but can be compiled with XeLaTeX?

@egreg: Because I want to make each page as a separate image that might be put in figure environment for example. — kiss my armpit, Mar 13 '12 at 15:21

egreg · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-13T15:43:19.387

7

You can use

\edef\numberofpages{\the\XeTeXpdfpagecount something.pdf }

and then \numberofpages will expand to the number of pages of the file.

You can also use the same syntax as with pdfTeX by

\usepackage{ifxetex}

\ifxetex
  \newcount\pdflastximagepages
  \def\pdfximage#1{\pdflastximagepages=\XeTeXpdfpagecount"#1"\relax}
\fi

but of course you won't have the complete functionality of \pdfximage with XeTeX.

edited Mar 13 '12 at 15:43

answered Mar 13 '12 at 15:37

egreg

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Your last update was actually the answer of my next question that I want to post. :-) Thanks. – kiss my armpit Mar 13 '12 at 15:52

Are there macros that behave like \pdfximage and \pdflastximagepages but can be compiled with XeLaTeX?

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