[pdftex] number too big -- anyone see this before?

[Radhakrishnan CV]

On 9 May 2001 at 10:18, Stephen Peters wrote:

> In trying to include a JPEG image into a PDFLaTeX document from a
> Debian installation (marked as pdftex 14f-released-20000525), and get
> the following error:
>
>   Warning: pdflatex: arithmetic: number too big
>   Warning: pdflatex: arithmetic: number too big
>   <testpic.jpg --32768.0pt, 0.0pt, image 1> [...]

You could circumvent the problem by adding a line:

 \pdfimageresolution=72

so that the image appears in the pdf output. It was a bug in 14f which
has been fixed in the subsequent versions.


Radhakrishnan