diff --git a/include/qpdf/QPDF.hh b/include/qpdf/QPDF.hh
index 987b78aa..eb3bf2e2 100644
--- a/include/qpdf/QPDF.hh
+++ b/include/qpdf/QPDF.hh
@@ -1219,7 +1219,8 @@ class QPDF
     QPDFObjGen nextObjGen();
     QPDFObjectHandle
     newIndirect(QPDFObjGen const&, std::shared_ptr<QPDFObject> const&);
-    QPDFObjectHandle makeIndirectObject(std::shared_ptr<QPDFObject> const& obj);
+    QPDFObjectHandle
+    makeIndirectFromQPDFObject(std::shared_ptr<QPDFObject> const& obj);
     bool isCached(QPDFObjGen const& og);
     bool isUnresolved(QPDFObjGen const& og);
     void updateCache(
diff --git a/libqpdf/QPDF.cc b/libqpdf/QPDF.cc
index 0000f050..7446c6da 100644
--- a/libqpdf/QPDF.cc
+++ b/libqpdf/QPDF.cc
@@ -2022,7 +2022,7 @@ QPDF::nextObjGen()
 }
 
 QPDFObjectHandle
-QPDF::makeIndirectObject(std::shared_ptr<QPDFObject> const& obj)
+QPDF::makeIndirectFromQPDFObject(std::shared_ptr<QPDFObject> const& obj)
 {
     QPDFObjGen next{nextObjGen()};
     m->obj_cache[next] = ObjCache(obj, -1, -1);
@@ -2032,13 +2032,14 @@ QPDF::makeIndirectObject(std::shared_ptr<QPDFObject> const& obj)
 QPDFObjectHandle
 QPDF::makeIndirectObject(QPDFObjectHandle oh)
 {
-    return makeIndirectObject(QPDFObjectHandle::ObjAccessor::getObject(oh));
+    return makeIndirectFromQPDFObject(
+        QPDFObjectHandle::ObjAccessor::getObject(oh));
 }
 
 QPDFObjectHandle
 QPDF::newStream()
 {
-    return makeIndirectObject(QPDF_Stream::create(
+    return makeIndirectFromQPDFObject(QPDF_Stream::create(
         this, nextObjGen(), QPDFObjectHandle::newDictionary(), 0, 0));
 }