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[Jonathan Kew]

On 21 Apr 2004, at 5:10 pm, Ross Moore wrote:

> Hi --- last time tonight!
>
> On 22/04/2004, at 1:53 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>
>>
>> On 21 Apr 2004, at 4:26 pm, Ross Moore wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi Jonathan,
>>>
>>>
>>> On 21/04/2004, at 3:17 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>>>
>>>> * height and width keywords for \picfile and \pdffile were not 
>>>> working
>>>
>>> Yes --- but now there is a problem with  'rotated'
>>>    the box is wrong, not enclosing the image correctly:
>>>
>
> Actually, it's the image that's wrong. The box is right after all.
>

Thanks for clarifying that; that makes sense, given what I know I 
changed. Just wasn't thinking clearly at the time, and over-simplified. 
:-(

> Tomorrow I'll post my  xetex.def  which implements LaTeX color,
> and \includegraphics .
> I'm pretty sure it's as correct as it can be, for what you
> say you have implemented. It'll give others a chance to try
> it out, and detect any mistakes that I'm not able to find myself.

That's great.

A couple of questions (for you to think about in the morning; others 
are of course welcome to offer opinions as well!):

* Should there also be cropping options on \picfile? I've always done 
stuff like that outside of TeX, but I remember someone mentioning it; 
does \includegraphics have cropping facilities? If so, what would be a 
logical approach to extending \picfile: four new keywords - cropleft, 
cropright, croptop, cropbottom? How should this interact with scaling 
and rotation?

* How badly do people want \special{x:pagecolor=XXXXXX} or similar? To 
implement this, I really need to know the page color at the very 
beginning of the page, so I can paint it first--which will mean 
scanning the page for occurrences of this \special before starting to 
image anything. That will have a small but perhaps noticeable cost.

Jonathan