[XeTeX] XeTeXpicfile unable to load PDF

[Jonathan Kew]

On 21 Jul 2008, at 5:32 AM, Sven Siegmund wrote:

> Hello,
>
> here is a minimal beamer document which does not want to compile:
>
> \documentclass[dvipdfm,hyperref=xetex]{beamer}
> \begin{document}
> \begin{frame}{ng vs. na subject ratio}
> 	\XeTeXpicfile "ngna.pdf" width 0.9\textwidth
> \end{frame}
> \end{document}
>
> (Find attached the ngna.pdf)
>
> What did I do wrong? xelatex reports "! Unable to load picture or PDF
> file 'ngna.pdf'."

It works for me. What OS, what TeX distro, what xetex version?

By the way, I would suggest using the graphicx package and the  
\includegraphics command in preference to "raw" \XeTeXpicfile. (But  
that doesn't explain your current problem, as the exact sample shown  
here works for me.)

Do you have the ngna.pdf file in the same directory as the input .tex  
document, or should you be using a path to find it?

JK