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

[Aaron Jackson]

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On Aug 1, 2007, at 4:32 PM, Chris Goedde wrote:

> 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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