[XeTeX] xetex tiles incorrectly with the wallpaper package

Ross Moore ross at ics.mq.edu.au
Tue Oct 27 20:14:25 CET 2009


Hi kmc,

On 27/10/2009, at 8:48 PM, kmc wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I recently came across this problem when using wallpaper.sty to  
> tile some
> seamless pattern image to construct a background.

> Here are my test result:
> 1. Compile this file using pdflatex, the resulting pdf looks good
> 2. Using xelatex, not so good. First, the page has not been wholly  
> tiled, leaving
> a white space at the bottom. Secondly, when zooming the pdf to at  
> least 600%,
> I saw white lines around the tile patterns, which means the images  
> are not
> seamlessly tiled, maybe xetex add some white spaces around them.

This sounds like it may relate to the  big-point incompatibility
that was discussed recently.
See
   http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2009-October/014528.html

Be careful that in the archive the '@' character has been
replaced by ' at ' throughout.
This includes (La)TeX coding as well as within email address.

>
> Tested on:  Windows 2000, TeX Live 2009 recent beta version,
> TeX 3.1415926 (Web2C 2009)
> kpathsea version 5.0.0
>
> xelatex version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.2 (Web2C 2009)
>
> Please help, thanks in advance!

Apostolos may have made the suggested changes already.


> --
> kmc

Hope this helps,

	Ross

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