219877 – dev-texlive/texlive-xetex-2007: XeTeX Lacks Config File Required For PDF-1.4 Files

Bug 219877 - dev-texlive/texlive-xetex-2007: XeTeX Lacks Config File Required For PDF-1.4 Files

Summary: dev-texlive/texlive-xetex-2007: XeTeX Lacks Config File Required For PDF-1.4 ...

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Alexis Ballier

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Reported:	2008-04-30 20:38 UTC by Freddie Witherden
Modified:	2008-10-26 13:31 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Description Freddie Witherden 2008-04-30 20:38:43 UTC

The version of XeTeX (xdvipdfmx) lacks an appropriate configuration file which is required for support for including PDF files with a version > 1.4.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use Inkscape or any other application to create a PDF file.
2. Check the first few letters of the file to make sure it is a PDF 1.4 file.
3. Create a new tex document which attempts to include the PDF fiel (\XeTeXpdffile)
4. Attempt to run the file through xelatex.

Actual Results:  
The PDF file generated will not contain the image.

Expected Results:  
The images included in .tex document will not be present in the PDF output.

One can get the exact warning like so:
xelatex -no-pdf test.tex;
xdvipdfmx test.tex;
This will generate a ** WARNING ** about the PDF file having too newer version.

This is a problem which does *not* occur with the stock TeXLive distribution (tried on a different Linux install and a MacText (TextLive 2007) install). It can be resolved by using a custom dvipdfmx config file in: ~/.texmf-config/dvipdfm/dvipdfmx.cfg with the line: V 4.

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2008-05-01 12:07:23 UTC

What package is this?
dev-texlive/texlive-xetex or app-text/xetex?

Comment 2 Freddie Witherden 2008-05-01 15:51:42 UTC

I am using dev-texlive/texlive-xetex.

Comment 3 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev

2008-05-01 17:17:57 UTC

does uncommenting the line in /etc/texmf/dvipdfm/dvipdfmx.cfg helps ?

Comment 4 Sven 2008-09-04 00:11:44 UTC

This is a dup of Bug 222869 or vice versa.

In Bug 222869 i already reported, that the file "dvipdfmx.cfg" is not installed by app-text/xdvipdfmx. To make the chaos complete, the file is part of app-text/dvipdfmx.

So if app-text/xdvipdfmx would install the dvipdfmx.cfg, we's had a file collision between app-text/xdvipdfmx and app-text/dvipdfmx.

Also notice, that the defaults of the file that ships with xdvipdfmx are different from the defaults provided by dvipdfmx. (The "V 4" is not commented - "V 4" is default).

Comment 5 Sven 2008-09-04 00:13:25 UTC

Also notice:
Before i installed dvipdfmx, i didn't have any dvipdfmx.cfg on my system. That's why i reported Bug 222866: i had only xetex and xdvipdfmx installed without dvipdfmx. And i didn't have any dvipdfmx.cfg on my system.

Comment 6 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev

2008-10-26 13:31:35 UTC

as we're now using texlive's xdvipdfmx, tl-core-2008-r3 now ships the .cfg file too and it should be fine