[OS X TeX] graphicx, pdflatex and pdf file names

[Chris Goedde]

On Aug 1, 2007, at 3:16 PM, William Adams wrote:

> On Aug 1, 2007, at 3:32 PM, Chris Goedde wrote:
>
>> Is there a workaround or solution to this short of renaming my pdf  
>> files? Is this a known bug? If not (or even if so), who's the  
>> right person to report it to?
>
> Look up \DeclareGraphicsRule which is how one teaches the graphicx  
> package about extensions --- it tries hard to be smart / safe /  
> sensible, which causes the behaviour you describe.
>
> I think the command you want is \DeclareGraphicsRule{*}{pdf}, which  
> then has any unknown extension treated as a .pdf.

Okay that works, thanks. The full syntax is

\DeclareGraphicsRule{*}{pdf}{*}{}

in the preamble, and the line

\includegraphics[width=3in]{Figs/Simulations/Aggregate/Correlation- 
WP-12.80.pdf}

in the file.

There's still a bug though, pdflatex/graphicx (not sure which)  
shouldn't be parsing the file as having extension .80.pdf, I don't  
think, but as having extension .pdf. (The above workaround just tells  
graphicx to pretend that a file with 'extension' .80.pdf the same as  
a file with extension .pdf.) Maybe others disagree that this is a  
bug, though.

-- 
Chris Goedde


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