[OS X TeX] graphicx, pdflatex and pdf file names

[Ross Moore]

Hi Chris,

On 02/08/2007, at 6:32 AM, Chris Goedde wrote:

> On Aug 1, 2007, at 3:16 PM, William Adams wrote:

>> I think the command you want is \DeclareGraphicsRule{*}{pdf}, which  
>> then has any unknown extension treated as a .pdf.
>
> Okay that works, thanks. The full syntax is
>
> \DeclareGraphicsRule{*}{pdf}{*}{}
>
> in the preamble, and the line
>
> \includegraphics[width=3in]{Figs/Simulations/Aggregate/Correlation-WP 
> -12.80.pdf}
>
> in the file.
>
> There's still a bug though, pdflatex/graphicx (not sure which)  
> shouldn't be parsing the file as having extension .80.pdf, I don't  
> think, but as having extension .pdf. (The above workaround just tells  
> graphicx to pretend that a file with 'extension' .80.pdf the same as a  
> file with extension .pdf.) Maybe others disagree that this is a bug,  
> though.

Yes; I disagree that it is a bug.
The problem lies in the choice of having a '.' in the filename, other  
than for the extension.
Even if you have lots of these, it is just a few minutes work to  
collect all the names
and write a short script that changes them all; e.g., with  
command-lines like:

    mv  Simulations/Aggregate/Correlation-WP-12.80.pdf   
Simulations/Aggregate/Correlation-WP-12_79.pdf
    mv  Simulations/Aggregate/Correlation-WP-12.80.pdf   
Simulations/Aggregate/Correlation-WP-12_80.pdf
    mv  Simulations/Aggregate/Correlation-WP-12.80.pdf   
Simulations/Aggregate/Correlation-WP-12_81.pdf


You may think that because a filename such as  Correlation-WP-12.80.pdf  
   is valid for the
filesystem, then other software should handle it correctly.
Nice ideal, but unfortunately there is a lot of otherwise good software  
around
which barfs at this point.  Not surprising, since that would not have  
been a valid
filename in some previous OSs, and may still continue to be invalid in  
some.

Have you tried to send a PDF with such a name as an attachment to an  
email message?
Try it; send to yourself. Then try to look at the image full-size in  
Apple's Mail.app
(via a double-click) or with other mailers.
This may actually work for you under OS X, where PDF is essentially a  
native format;
but will it work for other people, using other systems?

Recently I had a problem with a .doc file named with extra '.'s in the  
prefix.
Some mailers could open the attachment, others (incl. Mail.app) could  
not.
Solution:  save it and rename it!


Hope this helps,

	Ross


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> Chris Goedde
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