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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Dear XeTeX users</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Is there some documentation to explain the
correct usage of \XeTeXpdffile (preferably with worked examples)? I
typeset a periodical using plain XeTeX and there are always a few contributors
who have forgotten to fill in the copyright form, which is a 2-page PDF (but
that could easily be split into two separate single-page PDFs if it were
easier). Where a contributor needs a reminder, I would like to include the
PDF of the copyright form at the end of the first proof of the article or
review, and I can easily set this up as a conditional:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">\ifnocopyright</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"> \vfill \eject</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"> [include the PDF
here]</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">\else \relax \fi</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">But I have found that only a portion of the
PDF appears visible, and in the wrong position, even if the code after
\ifnocopyright include a couple of \pageinsert.... \endinsert
commands.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">As a stopgap I have printed and scanned each
of the two pages, and I include these as two consecutive \XeTeXpicfile
commands. Apart from the fact that this is intellectually unsatisfying,
the scans (of full A4 pages) had to be done at high resolution to achieve an
acceptable result, and this greatly adds to the length of the PDF of the
contribution (with multiple occurrences it increases the length of the PDF of
the whole issue to an enormous extent, slowing down processing).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">I get the two \XeTeXpicfile pages exactly
positioned by using \rput* from PSTricks (the * usefully overwrites the
cropmarks and running headlines), but I can't see any specific instructions on
how to position \XeTeXpdffile pages at will - and I suspect that is the
underlying problem that I need to overcome.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">I'm sure all of this is very neatly handled
by some XeLaTeX package, but for various reasons it's best, at least for the
time being, that I continue with tried and tested plain XeTeX. I
hope someone can help.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">John</FONT></DIV>
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