[texhax] Placing unknown images arbitrarily by lower left corner

[Peter Davis]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 3:26 AM, Ulrike Fischer <news3 at nililand.de> wrote:

> Am Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:38:29 -0400 schrieb Peter Davis:
>
>
> >
> > Thanks, all!  Probably I'm still missing something or not understanding
> how
> > this should work.  I tried to place two images on a page, so that both
> are
> > bottom aligned on a line halfway up the page (396bp).  I got LaTeX
> errors:
> >
> > ! LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size of graphic in egg.png (no
> BoundingBox).
>
> You should use pdflatex if you want to use png graphicx.
>


Actually, I'm using XeLaTeX, and I don't really care about png.  I just used
those because I had a couple of image files in the directory I was using.
 I'm more interested in placing PDF images.


>
> > \settoboxtotalheight{\imgheight}{\egg}
> > \raisebox{\imgheight}{\usebox{\egg}}
>
> It is actually not necessary to mesure the graphic before the
> \raisebox command. You can simply use
>
> \raisebox{\height}{\includegraphics{....}}
>

 Are you saying I should do this when I store the savebox, or when I use it?

Thanks,
-pd

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