[texhax] help

[Peter Flynn]

On 19/11/2018 11:09, Philip Taylor wrote:
> 
> 
> Peter —
>> On 19/11/2018 06:14, Varaprasad, PrakashRao wrote:
>>> I would like to include .tif files in xelatex format. Can anybody
>>> suggest me.
>>
>> Yes, you can use any image converter (eg ImageMagick) to convert them to
>> PNG images (not PDF or EPS), see
>>
>> See
>> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1072/which-graphics-formats-can-be-included-in-documents-processed-by-latex-or-pdflatex
>> for details of what image types can be used directly.
> 
> Why not PDF ?  Since Prasad is using XeLaTeX, and since XeTeX provides \XeTeXpdffile, conversion to PDF would seem a definite option to me.

I am under the impression (perhaps mistaken) that TIFF is a bitmap
format, so PNG would seem to be more appropriate than PDF.

///Peter