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    Improve our workaround for 'TeX capacity exceeded' in building PDF files. · 944b41fc
    Tom Lane authored
    In commit a5ec86a7 I wrote a quick hack
    that reduced the number of TeX string pool entries created while converting
    our documentation to PDF form.  That held the fort for awhile, but as of
    HEAD we're back up against the same limitation.  It turns out that the
    original coding of \FlowObjectSetup actually results in *three* string pool
    entries being generated for every "flow object" (that is, potential
    cross-reference target) in the documentation, and my previous hack only got
    rid of one of them.  With a little more care, we can reduce the string
    count to one per flow object plus one per actually-cross-referenced flow
    object (about 115000 + 5000 as of current HEAD); that should work until
    the documentation volume roughly doubles from where it is today.
    
    As a not-incidental side benefit, this change also causes pdfjadetex to
    stop emitting unreferenced hyperlink anchors (bookmarks) into the PDF file.
    It had been making one willy-nilly for every flow object; now it's just one
    per actually-cross-referenced object.  This results in close to a 2X
    savings in PDF file size.  We will still want to run the output through
    "jpdftweak" to get it to be compressed; but we no longer need removal of
    unreferenced bookmarks, so we might be able to find a quicker tool for
    that step.
    
    Although the failure only affects HEAD and US-format output at the moment,
    9.5 cannot be more than a few pages short of failing likewise, so it
    will inevitably fail after a few rounds of minor-version release notes.
    I don't have a lot of faith that we'll never hit the limit in the older
    branches; and anyway it would be nice to get rid of jpdftweak across the
    board.  Therefore, back-patch to all supported branches.
    944b41fc
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