Le mar 24/02/2004 à 19:37, Frank Küster a écrit : > > The graphics/graphicx package should recognize .pdftex pictures when the > > pdftex backend is used. These pictures are generated by XFig as part of > > the combined PDF/LaTeX format. See attached patch. > > Hm. I don't like this idea too much, for several reasons: [snip several good reasons] > - There are for sure other applications that use the extension to > recognize a file (I don't use any graphical filemanagers, but do they > really use magic?). This would have to be patched, too. At least GNOME recognizes files by magic, but that's a bit off-topic. > - I would like to keep the number of debian-specific patches as small as > possible. But since pdfTeX is also used on WinDOS systems where the > extension is the only established means of determining a file type, I > severely doubt that upstream would be willing to adopt your patch (and > the following ones for .pdflatex and .pdfout\dots). Well, please be consistent. Upstream as well as Debian's graphic[sx] package has been accepting .pstex as postscript for several years now. Treating .pdftex differently would lose consistency. > I would prefer if XFig just would name the PDF output file *.pdf, as > usual. Roland, is there any specific reason why this isn't done, or is > it just because that's how it's ever been? That's how it was implemented, but I doubt the feature was ever tested; it doesn't work at all since TeX doesn't accept .pdftex files. Regards, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org `. `' joss@debian.org `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
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