[XeTeX] Odd xelatex / pdflatex behaviour on 64 bit systems

[Wilfred van Rooijen]

This may have something to do with a "bug" in graphicx which was discussed some weeks ago. Then also there was an issue with a figure not showing up where it was supposed to. Let's hear what the gurus have to say.

Wilfred

--- On Fri, 12/2/10, David Cottenden <d.cottenden at ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> From: David Cottenden <d.cottenden at ucl.ac.uk>
> Subject: [XeTeX] Odd xelatex / pdflatex behaviour on 64 bit systems
> To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
> Date: Friday, 12 February, 2010, 5:00 PM
> Hello all,
> 
> I have stumbled upon a very odd little piece of behaviour
> to do with including graphics. I would just report it to the
> package maintainer, but it seems to behave differently in
> some cases between pdflatex and xelatex, so...
> 
> Here's a snatch of code - line numbers are for my
> convenience; they are obviously removed before compiling!
> 
> -----------
> 
> 1    \documentclass{article}
> 
> 2    \usepackage{chngpage}
> 3    \usepackage{graphicx}
> 4   
> \usepackage[a0paper,top=0pt,bottom=1in,left=1in,right=1in]{geometry}
> 5   
> %\usepackage[a0paper,top=0pt,bottom=1in,left=0in,right=0in]{geometry}
> 
> 6    \begin{document}
> 7    \adjustwidth{-1in}{-1in}%
> 8   
> \includegraphics[width=\paperwidth]{img_2799.jpg}
> 9    \endadjustwidth%
> 10    \end{document}
> 
> ----------
> 
> If this is run through xelatex or pdflatex on a 32 bits
> system as is then it does what you might expect (any old
> picture will do - I've used several different jpegs and
> pdfs). On a 64 bit system pdflatex will do the trick, but
> xelatex introduces a translation to the bottom right.
> However, if you pass "draft" to the graphicx package the
> bounding box is shown in the correct position.
> 
> Now comment out lines 2, 7, and 9 and uncomment line 5.
> Naively one might think that this would not change the
> output, but now you get a slightly different anomalous
> translation no matter what you compile with or on what
> platform.
> 
> Firstly, is this a known problem? Second, it's not the
> first time that I've encountered a difference in behaviour
> between the 32 and 64 bits versions of xelatex - why do they
> happen?
> 
> I am using TL'09 on an ubuntu linux system (I have
> installed TL'09 myself - repositories far too out of date).
> Further details available on request, but there would be way
> too many at the moment to sent them all!
> 
> Hopefully someone can explain...
> 
> David
> 
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