feature request: external figures with XeTeX
Hello Hans, Would it be possible to add high-level support (\externalfigure) for inclusion of external figures in XeTeX? (I didn't know that it worked - I remember a failed experiment from some time ago, but it might have been my fault.) There are two commands: \XeTeXpdffile <filename> <optional options> for PDF (supporting inclusion of different pages) \XeTeXpicfile <filename> <optional options> for "everything else" So for example this should work: \XeTeXpicfile "abc.png" width 8cm (or xscaled 1000 yscaled 2000 for example) (However I don't know which all the available options are.) Thank you, Mojca
Hi, I think \externalfigure support is the only \special feature that still doesn't work with XeTeX. It seems that color, paper sizes and pdf interaction work well. This is not a big problem, because you can use \XeTeXpicfile (for jpg, png and bmp) and \XeTeXpdffile (you can specify width, scale, angle, etc., and with pdf files, the page). The documentation is in the file XeTeX-notes.pdf, available with the Mac OS X XeTeX package (available options are 'width', 'height', 'scaled', 'xscaled', 'yscaled', 'rotated', and 'page' for pdf files). So you can do all the normal graphic manipulations without knowing box dimensions, etc., like with \externalfigure. But their syntax is a bit strange from the conTeXt point of view (too TeXy), and it would be nice to use the same syntax than with pdfTeX input. Thanks, Ricard
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Mojca Miklavec -
Ricard Roca