[OS X TeX] JPEG2000 and LaTeX

[Simon Spiegel]

On 06.12.2004, at 15:26, Jonathan Kew wrote:

> On 6 Dec 2004, at 2:15 pm, Maarten Sneep wrote:
>
>> On 6 dec 2004, at 14:43, Simon Spiegel wrote:
>>
>>> Is there support for the wonderful jpeg2000 in LaTeX? I did a bit of 
>>> googling and couldn't find any useful information. I'd love to use 
>>> jpeg2000 images in my documents.
>>
>> Although Acrobat supports it - and only in version 6, IIRC - I 
>> believe that Ghostscript
>> 8.33 is just starting to support embedded jpeg2000 files, so you 
>> might want to be careful.

Yeah, JPEG2000 is PDF1.5 only, so only Acrobat 6 supports it at the 
moment, this will change with Tiger.

> I haven't tried it personally, but I believe Quicktime claims to 
> support JPEG2000, and in that case it ought to work in Xe(La)TeX as 
> well. YMMV.

Quicktime has actually been supporting for quite a while, and it's a 
shame that this format hasn't seen a wider adoption since its 
compression results are really astonishing.

Thanks for your replies.

simon

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