[XeTeX] XeTeX, XeTeXpicfile, and counter-intuitive behaviour

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 02:25:43PM +0000, Philip TAYLOR wrote:

> Sorry, please read that as \XeTeXpdffile -- not
> tested with \XeTeXpicfile, which I will now do.
> 
> Philip TAYLOR wrote:
> >The behaviour is even stranger than I thought.
> >Used unadorned, \XeTeXpicfile introduces a significant
> >right shift for all text that follows it on the current
> >page; concealed within a \centerline, all is well yet
> >concealed within braces the artifact remains (so it
> >is not a scoping issue).

Make a minimal example that shows the problem.

Yours sincerely
  Heiko Oberdiek