[XeTeX] XeTeX 0.4 available

[Jonathan Kew]

For PDF figures, you really want to be using \pdffile (which will do 
true PDF inclusion) rather than \picfile (which will use the QuickTime 
graphic import APIs, which amounts to loading the PDF into a bitmap 
image).

I wonder: is there any reason NOT to make \picfile automatically use 
the PDF APIs in preference to QuickTime if the graphic is a PDF 
document? There may not be any real need for two separate primitives. 
(Note, though, that currently \pdffile recognizes an additional keyword 
'page' that isn't available with \picfile.)

Jonathan

On 22 Apr 2004, at 8:02 am, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Hi Ross,
>
>> OK, attached is my current efforts at creating a graphics
>> driver for  XeTeX:  i.e.  xetex.def  v0.4 .
>
> I tried it on a document including a PDF figure. This produces the 
> error message:
>
> 	LaTeX Warning: measuring size of QuickTime graphic litwidth.pdf on 
> input line 7
> 	.
>
> 	XeTeX: HiRes BoundingBox = (0,0) x (231.86624,160.59999)
> 	<litwidth.pdf>
> 	! Missing number, treated as zero.
> 	<to be read again>
> 	                   \Gin at ewidth
> 	l.7 \begin{center} \includegraphics{litwidth}
> 	                                              \end{center}
>
> Pressing "s", I get a document in which the figure is finally included 
> but appears as a bitmap in TeXShop's preview window. With pdfTeX, a 
> screenshot:
>
> 	<Image 3.pdf>
>
> and with XeTeX:
>
> 	<Image 4.pdf>
>
> Reminds me of the Textures days!
>
> Here are the sample files:
>
> <rosstest.tex>	<litwidth.pdf>
>
> I won't have time at all today (really!) for testing, but I thought 
> you might like to know the issue.
>
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