From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: XeTeX + ConTeXt in TeXShop
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:50:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46E7A83E.6060805@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00709120022g469caa63mb163fbcf8c5c617@mail.gmail.com>
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On 9/12/07, Andrea Valle wrote:
>> PS: I wikified some of the previous xetex infos. Please someone check I
>> didn't write silly stuff...
>
> The information that \externalfigure should be replaced by
> \XeTeXpicfile is misleading. It is a temporary solution for the bug (I
> didn't test recently, but I had serious prolems with inclusion of
> binary figures and newer PDF file versions), but not a general rule.
> The bug should be fixed if it still exists, rather than asking people
> to rewrite their sources to low-level commands.
>
> (The problems I had were the following: all the photos taken with my
> camera resulted in way too big images in the final PDF (width=,
> height= had absolutely no effect). It worked OK with pdfTeX & LuTeX
> though, and if I took that picture, modified it a bit in some external
> program and saved it again, it worked OK. So my temporary workaround
> was to save the photos again in some other program. But it should be
> fixed.)
you get that kind of effects when an image has no info about the
resolution; pdftex/luatex can be told what the resolution is but even
that can be a mismatch; there is no safeguard against faulty graphics
and indeed reprocessing them may help;
Hans
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-10 15:12 Andrea Valle
2007-09-10 15:32 ` Andrea Valle
2007-09-10 15:49 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2007-09-10 16:18 ` Andrea Valle
2007-09-10 17:26 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2007-09-11 9:14 ` Andrea Valle
2007-09-11 10:44 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2007-09-11 12:05 ` Andrea Valle
2007-09-11 21:20 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2007-09-11 23:51 ` Andrea Valle
2007-09-12 7:22 ` Mojca Miklavec
2007-09-12 7:55 ` Andrea Valle
2007-09-12 8:50 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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