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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