On 12 Sep 2007, at 09:22, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
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.
I completely agree, but nobody replied to my post when I complained.
. So my temporary workaround
was to save the photos again in some other program. But it should be
fixed.)
Ok, but this is not a better solution.
It's only cleaner from a ConTeXt point of view.
So you do not modify the sources but because of the bug you modify 200 jpgs.
In any case, as I have written, I had not output problems with \externalfigure, but the rli generation needed many texexec calls to be completed and was too slow
(even if only for the first time).
Instead, I had no luck at all with pdfs inclusion.
So, my idea would be to clearly specify in the wiki entry that it's a momentary workaround.
-a-