[XeTeX] graphics inclusion

[Jonathan Kew]

On 7 Dec 2007, at 11:15 pm, Guy wrote:

> Thanks for the responses, Jonathan and Bruno.  The problem is probably
> very basic; is there any documentation I could read on graphics and
> XeTeX?  Including my graphic works fine under the graphicx package in
> latex, but I'm missing something with XeTeX.  I followed the advice
> below, but still got the same error ("! Unable to load...").  Can I
> ask the newbie question of what packages or preamble commands, if any,
> are required to use the \XeTeXpdffile command?  And is there a special
> option to use when issuing the "xelatex <file.tex>" command?  I tried
> also "xelatex -no-pdf file.tex" and "xdvipdfmx -v file.xdv," which did
> produce a pdf, but since there was still the same problem to begin
> with ("! Unable to load..."), the graphic was not included.  I had the
> same problem with an otherwise blank article and got the same result,
> so I'm assuming I'm just missing a basic command or bit of
> configuration.  Thanks again for the help,
>

If you're running xelatex, rather than "plain" xetex, just use the  
graphicx package, and it should automatically do the right thing.  
(And if it doesn't, please show us a minimal but complete example of  
a document that fails, so we can try to diagnose the problem.)

For details of the primitive \XeTeXpdffile command, you'd need to  
look at the "XeTeX-notes" document that I think is included in  
TeXLive; try "texdoc XeTeX-notes". But within xelatex, you don't need  
that; just use graphicx.

JK