[tex-live] pdflatex - includegraphics - extensions

[Yue Wang]

Hi,

Another related issue:
in dvi mode, graphicx package still requires the bbox information of a
jpeg/png/pdf image.
I think that is not needed for typesetting as pdftex primitives can
get the image size correctly.

Yue Wang

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 12:22 AM, <teli at mails.selgrad.org> wrote:
> Hello list!
>
> Today i stumbled upon a pdflatex behaviour that i would consider a bug,
> though this might not be general consensus :)
>
> I'm \includegraphics'ing a few images that show different stages of a
> process. The files are named blah.1.jpg, blah.2.jpg, and so on, which
> leads to the following error message:
>        Unknown graphics extension: .1.jpg
>
> If I rename the files to blah-n.jpg it works well, as expected, even if
> I include the files from ~/.hidden/blah-n.jpg. Nevertheless, personally,
> I think that, if one has to rely on something like file extensions a
> backwards pattern matching would be more appropriate, as filenames
> containing dots are not that uncommon.
>
> Is the described behaviour intentional or possibly subject to change?
> It's quite easy to get around it, but I don't like arbirary limitations
> of this kind, unless, of course, there is a good reason ;)
>
> Thanks for any information,
> Happy TeXing,
>        Kai
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