[OS X TeX] pdflatex warning

[Chris Goedde]

On Sep 7, 2006, at 7:04 AM, Themis Matsoukas wrote:

> I get the following warning while running pdflatex
>
> Warning: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/pdflatex  
> (file ./fig
> ures/fig1_trapped.pdf): pdf inclusion: Page Group detected which  
> pdfTeX can't h
> andle. Ignoring it.
>
> Does anyone know what that means? I can't see an obvious problem  
> (the figure is included properly) but before I send this proposal  
> I'd like to know what's causing the warning.

I'm certainly not an expert (I'm about to tell you everything I  
know!), but I'm pretty sure it's coming from pdflatex trying to  
process that pdf figure. It seems to have something to do with  
transparency. A google search for 'pdf "page group"' turns up this link:

http://www.tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2003-March/003806.html

HTH.

-- 
Chris Goedde

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