[XeTeX] XeTeXpicfile

[Stephen Moye]

On Nov 11, 2011, at 3:55 AM, Philip TAYLOR wrote:

> The documentation states :
> 
>> \XeTeXpicfile ‹filename› [ scaled ‹int› | xscaled ‹int› | yscaled ‹int› |
>> width ‹dimen› | height ‹dimen› | rotated ‹decimal› ]
> 
> and indeed, an attempt to use XeTeXpicfile with a fractional scale
> factor such as 0.666, as in
> 
> 	XeTeXpifile myimage.png scaled 0.666
> 
> leads to
> 
>> ** WARNING ** Transformation matrix not invertible.
>> ** WARNING ** --- M = [0 0 0 0 -43.6535 -396.088]
> 
> How is one intended to accomplish fractional scaling, please ?

I've never used this myself, but the documentation you quote does say:

>> scaled ‹int›

which presumably means that an *integer* is required as an argument to 'scaled'.
That would lead me to believe that 'scaled' works like TeX's scaling.

SGM