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Bug#485071: (fwd) Bug#485071: Please provide support for including EPS with XeLaTeX

Hi Norbert,

On 11 Jun 2008, at 4:52 am, Norbert Preining wrote:


Hi Jonathan,

another day another question ...
----- Forwarded message from Faidon Liambotis <paravoid@debian.org> ----- 
Currently it is not possible to include EPS graphics with
\includegraphics. Upstream has a very simple fix in their SVN[1] that
modifies xetex.def to fix that.

The patch is:
--- trunk/Master/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/graphics/xetex.def 2006/09/15 15:31:59 2132 +++ trunk/Master/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/graphics/xetex.def 2007/11/26 17:13:01 5603 
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%% 
 %%  Version History
 %%
+%% 2007/10/25 [JK] Version v0.93 added EPS support from dvipdfmx.def +%% (for use with xdvipdfmx, default driver in xetex 0.997) 
+%%


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----- End forwarded message -----
Do you think that this is ok to be put into texlive for debian? THe only 
thing making me think about is that there is written
	"default driver in xetex 0.997"
while debian has 0.996-patch2.
The xetex version is relevant primarily for Mac OS X, where pre-0.997 versions used xdv2pdf by default and definitely couldn't support .eps images unless the user specifically reconfigured things.
So for Debian, that's not a concern; you'll always be using xdvipdfmx. However, I don't recall offhand whether there were any significant bug-fixes in xdvipdfmx that you'd need in order for this to actually work, or if it's always been supported if you had a suitable xetex.def.
I'm away from home and office at the moment, without much chance to test things. So I'd suggest that if you want to consider including this, give it a try and see what happens with your current binaries, and the updated xetex.def. I think there's a good chance it'll work but can't promise anything right now, sorry. 

Jonathan
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