\placefigure problems in Xetex

\placefigure problems in Xetex

[Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky]

Hello

Unfortunately, I get dummy boxes instead of .pdf figures in the
XeteXed document. I know, it has been discussed already in the list. However, I downloaded and installed the fresh
version of TexLive2007 today, and no problems from updating shouldn't arise.

The log says:
figures         : dimensions of ./f01.pdf calculated by rlxtools
system(texmfstart rlxtools --identify ./f01.pdf)...disabled.
figures         : dimensions of ./f01.pdf calculated by rlxtools
figures         : figure f01.pdf can not be found

Surely, the figure is present in the same directory as the .tex document
itself.

(The same running pdftex works fine).

Best,
Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

Re: \placefigure problems in Xetex

[Oliver Buerschaper]

Hi,

again, I've been through this a couple of days ago so I'm happy to  
share my experience with you ;-)

For me the problem was not having installed ImageMagick in the first  
place. But judging from your log this doesn't seem to be the problem.

Let me think ... perhaps your glitch might be related to a funny  
thing I stumbled upon: including a PDF figure with \externalfigure  
resulted in a crazy distortion of the image although I didn't specify  
any height or width arguments (i.e. I didn't override its natural  
dimensions)... Hans, Mojca, do you have any ideas? I'm going to send  
a test file tomorrow ...

Best,
Oliver



> Hello
>
> Unfortunately, I get dummy boxes instead of .pdf figures in the
> XeteXed document. I know, it has been discussed already in the  
> list. However, I downloaded and installed the fresh
> version of TexLive2007 today, and no problems from updating  
> shouldn't arise.
>
> The log says:
> figures         : dimensions of ./f01.pdf calculated by rlxtools
> system(texmfstart rlxtools --identify ./f01.pdf)...disabled.
> figures         : dimensions of ./f01.pdf calculated by rlxtools
> figures         : figure f01.pdf can not be found
>
> Surely, the figure is present in the same directory as the .tex  
> document
> itself.
>
> (The same running pdftex works fine).
>
> Best,
> Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

Re: \placefigure problems in Xetex

[Aditya Mahajan]

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote:

> Hello
>
> Unfortunately, I get dummy boxes instead of .pdf figures in the
> XeteXed document. I know, it has been discussed already in the list. However, I downloaded and installed the fresh
> version of TexLive2007 today, and no problems from updating shouldn't arise.
>
> The log says:
> figures         : dimensions of ./f01.pdf calculated by rlxtools
> system(texmfstart rlxtools --identify ./f01.pdf)...disabled.
> figures         : dimensions of ./f01.pdf calculated by rlxtools
> figures         : figure f01.pdf can not be found

I do not run XeTeX, but guessing from the error message, is write18 
enabled on your system?

Aditya

Re: \placefigure problems in Xetex

[Hans Hagen]

Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote:
> Hello
>
> Unfortunately, I get dummy boxes instead of .pdf figures in the
> XeteXed document. I know, it has been discussed already in the list. However, I downloaded and installed the fresh
> version of TexLive2007 today, and no problems from updating shouldn't arise.
>
> The log says:
> figures         : dimensions of ./f01.pdf calculated by rlxtools
> system(texmfstart rlxtools --identify ./f01.pdf)...disabled.
> figures         : dimensions of ./f01.pdf calculated by rlxtools
> figures         : figure f01.pdf can not be found
>
> Surely, the figure is present in the same directory as the .tex document
> itself.
>
> (The same running pdftex works fine).
>   
can you try the new release i just uploaded

Hans

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Re: \placefigure problems in Xetex

[Mojca Miklavec]

Hello,

Just to let you all know: ConTeXt with pdfTeX creates PDF version 1.5
by default, and xdvipdfmx driver of XeTeX (which became the default
one) isn't capable to handle those files. It handles PDF 1.4 OK, so if
you have some PDFs with a too recent version, you should convert them
to a lower version first. (I suppose that it's possible to use a lower
version as a setting in pdfTeX, and probably you can use gs to convert
an existing PDF.)

xdv2pdf handles recent PDFs OK.

So, in case that you have problems with image inclusion, you know what
the problem might be, and it's not sure when it will be solved. (The
problem described below has different kind of problems though.)

Mojca


On 4/13/07, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky <yatskovsky@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> Unfortunately, I get dummy boxes instead of .pdf figures in the
> XeteXed document. I know, it has been discussed already in the list. However, I downloaded and installed the fresh
> version of TexLive2007 today, and no problems from updating shouldn't arise.
>
> The log says:
> figures         : dimensions of ./f01.pdf calculated by rlxtools
> system(texmfstart rlxtools --identify ./f01.pdf)...disabled.
> figures         : dimensions of ./f01.pdf calculated by rlxtools
> figures         : figure f01.pdf can not be found
>
> Surely, the figure is present in the same directory as the .tex document
> itself.
>
> (The same running pdftex works fine).
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Re: \placefigure problems in Xetex

[luigi scarso]

On 4/23/07, Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Just to let you all know: ConTeXt with pdfTeX creates PDF version 1.5
> by default, and xdvipdfmx driver of XeTeX (which became the default
> one) isn't capable to handle those files. It handles PDF 1.4 OK, so if
> you have some PDFs with a too recent version, you should convert them
> to a lower version first. (I suppose that it's possible to use a lower
> version as a setting in pdfTeX, and probably you can use gs to convert
> an existing PDF.)
In spec-tpd.tex:
\pdfminorversion=5
(ie. PDF version 1.5)
So one can say
\pdfminorversion=4
and cross the fingers....

luigi
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