From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/27998 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ConTeXt, XeTeX for Linux and xdvipdfmx Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 19:58:23 +0200 Message-ID: <446A12BF.7020507@wxs.nl> References: <200605161354.29024.ricardroca@gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1147802322 12554 80.91.229.2 (16 May 2006 17:58:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 17:58:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue May 16 19:58:40 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fg3oV-0005ok-Mx for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 May 2006 19:58:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5CB6127CB; Tue, 16 May 2006 19:58:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 23286-04; Tue, 16 May 2006 19:58:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2629127C1; Tue, 16 May 2006 19:58:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36DC4127C1 for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 19:58:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 22882-06 for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 19:58:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id CCECD1276C for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 19:58:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 17402 for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 21:58:21 +0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <200605161354.29024.ricardroca@gmail.com> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:27998 Archived-At: Ricard Roca wrote: > Hi, > > It seems that some things doesn't work well with ConTeXt and XeTeX for Linux. > For example image inclusion (jpg, png, pdf) with \externalfigure or > \useexternalfigure doesn't work, but does with xdvipdfmx \special's > (\special{pdf: image ...}). Also, \setuppapersize doesn't work (e. g. > \setuppapersize[A5][A5] does the same as \setuppapersize[A5][A4], being A4 > the default). > > But \color seems to work well. > > Are these ConTeXt bugs (related to \special's) or Linux XeTeX-xdvipdfmx bugs? > > no, more a matter of deciding what to use i.e. a mixture of xetex and dpx specials (i'm playing with that now with a linux vm); somehow xetex barks about an newer pdf version number; i wonder why it does not let dvipdfmx do the inclusion (the tricky part is that we need to determine the dimensions) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------