Further to my last mail, I just tried the same test file with latex+dvipdfmx and it works like pdftex (the clipping is tight to the numbered circles) but I get the warning
extractbb:warning: JPEG: Inconsistent resolution may have specified in Exif and JFIF: 72x72 - 120x120 So arguably it's a fault in the image file, (and not your fault:-) although given that it's easy to produce such things and hard to spot in advance, it would perhaps be good if things could go the same way or error or at least warn... In this case I just drew a couple of circles in an empty microsoft paint and clicked save as jpeg, so it's not as if the inconsistent data occurred due to some complicated pipeline of image transformations. David
