Hi, I am looking at what Hans was talking about. Before doing any changes, I would like to ask for explanation of a few things, as pdf inclusion is the speciality of Martin. - we have \pdfforcepagebox (\or pdfoptionalwaysusepdfpagebox) to force the pagebox being use, which can be: (1) media box, (2) crop box, (3) bleed box, (4) trim box, and (5) artbox. - then when a pdf image is included, one can say: mediabox|cropbox|bleedbox|trimbox|artbox to specify the box being used. The corresponding value are @!pdf_pdf_box_spec_media = 0; @!pdf_pdf_box_spec_crop = 1; @!pdf_pdf_box_spec_bleed = 2; @!pdf_pdf_box_spec_trim = 3; @!pdf_pdf_box_spec_art = 4; There are 2 points that might be need re-consideration: 1) to use \pdfforcepagebox one has to say the correct number, which is not that comfortable 2) there is some inconsistency in those above definitions, which requires more work to handle them in pdftoepdf.cc Any idea what can be done here? Thanh On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 05:15:38PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:

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choff had another wish: the ability to determine the size of a graphic, so we need something:

\pdfcheckimage [artbox|bleedbox|...] {filename}

that returns the llx etc in

\pdfimagebbox == llx lly urx ury

(or \pdfimagellx \pdfimagelly etc)

That way pdftex can be used (in dvi mode) with dvipdfmx image inclusion.

Hans

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