[XeTeX] Placing .pdfs w/ crop and trim boxes
Jonathan Kew
jonathan_kew at sil.org
Wed Jun 14 12:37:58 CEST 2006
On 14 Jun 2006, at 9:34 am, Jonathan Kew wrote:
> On 13 Jun 2006, at 7:59 pm, William Adams wrote:
>> Cropping in Adobe Acrobat (having their crop box set) isn't respected
>> when they're placed --- is this a known issue? (I couldn't find
>> anything on it) and what causes it?
>
> Not a known issue to me, mainly because it's not something I've ever
> tried to do. xetex uses Quartz functions to access a PDF file, and
> uses the media box to determine its size. I guess it should be using
> the crop box instead, though; it just hasn't come to my attention
> because I don't crop and place PDFs! :)
Hi William,
If you're inclined to build-your-own-XeTeX, rather than waiting for a
new release, the current code in Subversion now respects the crop box
(at least for the simple tests I've run).
Should xetex also consider the trim box of a PDF it's including? If
so, how would that interact with the crop box?
(This is Mac OS X-only at present; \XeTeXpdffile isn't supported
elsewhere yet. But maybe [x]dvipdfmx has other ways to include PDFs?
I haven't investigated.)
There's no support yet for setting the various boxes in the xetex
output through xdv2pdf, though.
JK
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