[XeTeX] PDF files only sporadically included

[Jonathan Kew]

On 27 Feb 2008, at 1:07 am, Akira Kakuto wrote:

>>> I sure can! See attached.
>>
>> Yes, this fails with xdvipdfmx. If you run xetex with the -no-pdf
>> option, to generate an .xdv file, and then run xdvipdfmx separately
>> on the resulting file, you'll get some warnings about it:
>>
>> 	** WARNING ** Invalid object label: 14 0
>> 	** WARNING ** Could not find a name object.
>> 	** WARNING ** Could not find a key in dictionary object.
>> 	** WARNING ** Couldn't read xref trailer. Is this a correct PDF  
>> file?
>> 	** WARNING ** No trailer.
>> 	** WARNING ** Trailer not found! Corrupt PDF file?
>> 	** WARNING ** pdf: image inclusion failed for "intro21a.pdf".
>>
>> But I don't know why this is happening; at first glance, anyhow, the
>> PDF looks ok, and other programs read it successfully. So I guess it
>> must be an xdvipdfmx bug; I'll try to dig a little deeper.
>
> FYI: The latest dvipdfmx (CVS version) can embed intro21a.pdf,

Thanks, that's helpful to know. I'm aware that dvipdfmx has had some  
updates that haven't been merged into xdvipdfmx yet; it sounds like I  
should look into this.

JK