[XeTeX] xetex bug #71 jpeg inclusion fails with Dimension too large

[Vafa Khalighi]

Thanks Akira.

Your sincerely,
  Vafa

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 1:39 AM, Akira Kakuto <kakuto at fuk.kindai.ac.jp> wrote:
> Dear Vafa Khalighi,
>
>> There was an annoying bug reported back in 2013:
>> http://sourceforge.net/p/xetex/bugs/71/
>>
>>
>> I thought that this bug was fixed in 2013 but it exists in both
>> TeXlive 2014 and TeXlive 2015 which makes me wonder was it really
>> fixed back in 2013?
>>
>> I have attached a simple test here.
>
>
> The reason is that there is not 'JFIF' header in the test.jpg.
> The jpeg driver in XeTeX is not so clever, sorry.
> I have added the 'JFIF' header by
> convert -density 96x96 test.jpg test1.jpg
> See an attached test1.zip.
> If I do not use -density option, then the density becomes 1DPI,
> thus urx - llx = 45.17feet > 19feet for the test.jpg. In this case, any TeX
> engine
> cannot include such a large image.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Akira KAKUTO
>
>
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