From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/36466 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: XeTeX + ConTeXt in TeXShop Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:50:06 +0200 Message-ID: <46E7A83E.6060805@wxs.nl> References: <87E20AF1-1506-4EAB-98CB-A8ACC1DD79AC@di.unito.it> <20070910154914.GA9305@phare.normalesup.org> <9FF46A85-EEB4-431D-A090-1107018BA97C@fiee.net> <037066CD-5557-42A3-B065-375D500238A7@di.unito.it> <20070911104441.GC15932@phare.normalesup.org> <393D6849-0422-4E00-84C8-E7D9B0F2D403@di.unito.it> <6faad9f00709120022g469caa63mb163fbcf8c5c617@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189587254 16022 80.91.229.12 (12 Sep 2007 08:54:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:54:14 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Sep 12 10:54:11 2007 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 lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IVNz7-0008Vu-DI for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:54:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 499DB1FF0A; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:54:09 +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 31336-03; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:54:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B2EF1FF0B; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:51:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 169701FF0B for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:50:59 +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 30035-03-11 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:50:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0C581FF0A for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:50:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 13817 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:50:51 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00709120022g469caa63mb163fbcf8c5c617@mail.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: 2.1.9 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:36466 Archived-At: 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________