[XeTeX] Newbie problem with \includegraphics and xelatex

[Brian Passingham]

Thanks again for the swift help.  Using the -V 4 on the command line worked.
But I am slightly confused now.

In /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfmx I have
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7043 2008-05-15 13:18 dvipdfmx.cfg

Which defines :

%% PDF Version Setting
%%
%% PDF (minor) version stamp to use in output file.
%% This also implies maximal version of PDF file allowed to be included.
%% Dvipdfmx does not support 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 since TrueType font embedded
%% as CIDFontType2 requires at least version 1.3. Transparent imaging
%% model requires version 1.4. So if you want soft-masking support for
%% PNG image with alpha channels, you should set version to 4 or higher.

% V  4

So why wasn't it working already ...?






2009/3/31 Ulrike Fischer <news3 at nililand.de>:
> Am Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:59:08 +0100 schrieb Brian Passingham:
>
>> Hi Ulrike:
>>
>> 1) Graphic was in the same directory, which led me to the
>> \graphicspath setting at some point yesterday.
>
> graphics in the current directory are always found so you don't need
> a \graphicspath -- and even if you would need it: you need an extra
> pair of braces.
>
>> 2) xelatex --output-driver="xdvipdfmx -vv" cutdown.tex gets me the
>> relevant confession (thanks!) :
>>
>> ** WARNING ** Version of PDF file (1.4) is newer than version limit
>> specification.
>> [UNKNOWN]
>> ** WARNING ** No image converter available for converting file
>> "./plotivVEN.pdf" to PDF format.
>> ** WARNING ** >> Please check if you have 'D' option in config file.
>> )
>> ** WARNING ** pdf: image inclusion failed for "./plotivVEN.pdf".
>> ]
>>
>> So now we know what's wrong... Now : what can I  do about it?  I think
>> there was some discussion of this some time ago - is it a .def file
>> issue of some kind?
>
> Try
>
>  xelatex --output-driver="xdvipdfmx -vv -V 4"
>
> or other numbers.
>
> If it works: search for dvipdfmx.cfg and set there
> V  <your number>
>
> --
> Ulrike Fischer
>
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