[XeTeX] Scaling graphics

[José Carlos Santos]

On 30-04-2010 15:35, Ulrike Fischer wrote:

>> This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.1 (MiKTeX 2.8)
>>
>> So, it is a slightly more recent version than yours (and the problem
>> might lie there).
>
> No, I can reproduce your problem with miktex 2.7 too.
>
> Your picture is 1886 pixel wide and declares its resolution to be
> 600 dpi. This gives a "natural" width of 8cm and this width you get
> with pdflatex.
>
> But xetex seems not to take the resolution into account but use a
> resolution of 72 dpi. This gives a "natural" width of about 66cm and
> so scaling it to 0.4 is not enough.
>
> I don't know if you can tell to use another dpi value as default or
> for one image.

Thanks for your explanation.

Best regards,

Jose Carlos Santos