Cfrgtkky

In order to optimize the generation of thousands of PDF documents, I'm struggling with mylatexformat that will include the main packages.

To structure our work, I've put all the common packages in a file that should be precompiled, and all our client related definitions in another file (in a second step I will also try to precompile some packages and definitions for each client).

But the generated PDF output doesn't include the letterhead background. The PDF also shows a page number whereas I've defined that no page number should be visible. When I'm not working with mylatexformat, this Hello World ! example is working correctly.

penarch-common-precompiled.tex

defencodingdefault{OT1}normalfont

everyjobexpandafter{theeveryjobdefencodingdefault{TU}normalfont}





documentclass{article}





usepackage{parskip}            % vertical space between paragraphs

usepackage{xcolor}             % foreground (text, rules, etc.) and background colour management

usepackage{soul}               % hyphenatable letterspacing, underlining, overstriking, highlighting

usepackage{geometry}           % customize page layout

usepackage{enumitem}           % enumerate, itemize and description lists

usepackage{hyperref}           % hypertext links

usepackage{qrcode}             % generate QR codes

usepackage{fancyhdr}           % headers and footers

usepackage{graphicx}           % support for graphics

usepackage{tabularx}           % tables with adjustable width columns

usepackage{scalerel}           % vertically scaling and stretching objects

usepackage{amssymb}            % symbols found in the AMS symbol font msam and msbm

usepackage{multicol}           % define a multicols environment which typesets text in multiple columns

usepackage{pst-barcode}        % printing of barcodes, including qr codes

usepackage{scrextend}          % required to left indent address block

usepackage{marvosym}           % includes euro symbol

usepackage{colortbl}           % background color for row, columns or individual cells in a table

usepackage[absolute]{textpos}  % absolute positioning of text on the page

usepackage{tikz}               % package for creating graphics

usepackage{setspace}           % set spacing between lines

usepackage{wallpaper}          % use pdf as background image (letterhead)



title{Sections and Chapters}

hypersetup{colorlinks=true,linkcolor=blue}     % define the layout of hyperlinks

newcommand{hlc}[2][yellow]{

    {sethlcolor{#1} hl{#2}}

}                                               % define a new command to highlight in another color

newcommand{dole}[1]{%

    begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]

        node[anchor=east,xshift=0mm,yshift=-1.2mm]{#1};

    end{tikzpicture}

}                                               % make a font to is aligned 1.2mm beneath the normal line



newcolumntype{C}[1]{>{centeringarraybackslash}m{#1}}     % define a new column type for a fixed-width centered-aligned column - middle vertical alignment

newcolumntype{R}[1]{>{raggedleftarraybackslash}m{#1}}    % define a new column type for a fixed-width right-aligned column - middle vertical alignment

newcolumntype{L}[1]{>{raggedrightarraybackslash}m{#1}}   % define a new column type for a fixed-width left-aligned column - middle vertical alignment

newcolumntype{F}[1]{>{raggedrightarraybackslash}p{#1}}   % define a new column type for a fixed-width left-aligned column - top vertical alignment



setlength{TPHorizModule}{10mm}                % 1 generic horizontal unit is equivalent to 10mm for a textblock

setlength{TPVertModule}{10mm}                 % 1 generic vertical unit is equivalent to 10mm for a textblock

textblockorigin{0mm}{0mm}                      % top left corner set as origin for a textblock



endofdump

penarch-client.tex

usepackage{fontspec}                       % support for OpenType fonts



geometry{

    a4paper,

    left=30mm,

    right=25mm,

    headheight=115pt,

    top=4.5cm,

    headsep=0cm,

    bottom=3.5cm,

    footskip=95pt

}



pagenumbering{gobble}                          % sets page numbering off



linespread{0.8}                                % change the line spacing for entire document

setmainfont[Path=./fonts/,

    BoldItalicFont=CALIBRIZ.TTF,

    BoldFont      =CALIBRIB.TTF,

    ItalicFont    =CALIBRII.TTF]{CALIBRI.TTF}   % set main font to Calibri



ULCornerWallPaper{1}{letterhead.pdf}

hello-world.tex

%&penarch-common-precompiled

input{penarch-client}

input{penarch-hyphenation-dutch}



begin{document}





Hello World !





end{document}

My shell script

xelatex -ini -jobname="penarch-common-precompiled" "&xelatex" mylatexformat.ltx penarch-common-precompiled.tex

xelatex hello-world.tex

You must add endofdump. Without it mylatexformat will ignore everything in the preamble until begin{document}:

endofdump

input{penarch-client}

input{penarch-hyphenation-dutch}



begin{document}





Hello World !





end{document}