Hi Bruno, > When I run > > pdfinfo doc/automake.pdf | tr -d '\000' | grep "Page *size" | sed -e 's/Page > *size: *\\([[:digit:].]*\\) *x *\\([[:digit:].]*\\).*$/\ > .nr pdfpic*width (p;\\1)\\n\ > .nr pdfpic*height (p;\\2)/'
Are you running those three lines in a shell or have you edited the troff to be that text? IOW, is troff filtering the text before sh sees it? -- Cheers, Ralph.