[XeTeX] Help with xdvipdfmx and \includegraphics

[Nicola Vitacolonna]

On 15/mag/07, at 11:12, Nicola Vitacolonna wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm trying to convert an old prosper presentation into xelatex +  
> beamer format. Unfortunately, I am not able to use any pdf picture,  
> that is, if I try to include pic.pdf with
>
> \includegraphics{pic}
>
> I get the error
>
> ! LaTeX Error: File `pic.bb' not found.
>
> Is there any workaround for this?

As a quick hack, I have extracted the bounding box manually and I  
have put it in  \includegraphics, e.g.

\includegraphics[bb = 0 0 610 509]{pic}

This works for me, but it is rather tedious. Is there any other way?

I use XeTeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996 and beamer 3.07.

Nicola