[texhax] Placing unknown images arbitrarily by lower left corner

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 01:35:26PM -0400, Peter Davis wrote:

> Is there a way to determine how to place the image in LaTeX given this?  I
> don't care about the dimensions per se, but I might need to know the height
> to determine the upper left corner, given the lower left corner.

The image can be put in a box and then the box dimensions
tell the image dimensions (see also \settoheight,
package `settobox', ...).

Yours sincerely
  Heiko Oberdiek