[texhax] Placing unknown images arbitrarily by lower left corner
Ulrike Fischer
news3 at nililand.de
Thu Mar 31 14:40:09 CEST 2011
Am Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:18:47 -0400 schrieb Peter Davis:
>>> ! LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size of graphic in egg.png (no
>>> BoundingBox).
>> You should use pdflatex if you want to use png graphicx.
> Actually, I'm using XeLaTeX, and I don't really care about png. I just used
> those because I had a couple of image files in the directory I was using.
> I'm more interested in placing PDF images.
Xelatex will work fine with png and pdf images.
>>> \settoboxtotalheight{\imgheight}{\egg}
>>> \raisebox{\imgheight}{\usebox{\egg}}
>> It is actually not necessary to mesure the graphic before the
>> \raisebox command. You can simply use
>> \raisebox{\height}{\includegraphics{....}}
> Are you saying I should do this when I store the savebox, or when I use it?
You can use it like I wrote it. \raisebox knows the dimensions of
its argument and stores them in \height, \depth, \width.
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\rule{3cm}{4cm} abc \raisebox{-0.5\height}{\rule{3cm}{4cm}}
\end{document}
--
Ulrike Fischer
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