[XeTeX] XeTeX documentation? (from "Checking if a font exists")

Heiko Oberdiek heiko.oberdiek at googlemail.com
Wed Sep 1 11:56:59 CEST 2010


Hi,

On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 01:21:38AM -0700, Michiel Kamermans wrote:

> >\XeTeXpdffile <filename> [page <int>] [crop|media|bleed|trim|art]
> >   [scaled<int>|xscaled<int>|yscaled<int>
> >   |width<dimen>|height<dimen>
> >   |rotated<decimal>]*
> >
> >The first two options are specific for PDF files (\XeTeXpdffile),
> >thus the syntax of \XeTeXpicfile is
> >
> >\XeTeXpicfile<filename>
> >   [scaled<int>|xscaled<int>|yscaled<int>
> >   |width<dimen>|height<dimen>
> >   |rotated<decimal>]*
> 
> Are you sure scale takes <int> and not <decimal>? Scaling in integer
> steps sounds like it might be a problem.

No, it's "TeX scaling", the unit is "per thousand". It's the same
scaling specification as for \font:
Scale factor 1000 means no scaling at all.

Yours sincerely
  Heiko Oberdiek


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