Dear XeTeX users
Is there some documentation to explain the correct usage of \XeTeXpdffile
(preferably with worked examples)? I typeset a periodical using plain XeTeX
and there are always a few contributors who have forgotten to fill in the
copyright form, which is a 2-page PDF (but that could easily be split into two
separate single-page PDFs if it were easier). Where a contributor needs a
reminder, I would like to include the PDF of the copyright form at the end of
the first proof of the article or review, and I can easily set this up as a
conditional:
\ifnocopyright
\vfill \eject
[include the PDF here]
\else \relax \fi
But I have found that only a portion of the PDF appears visible, and in the
wrong position, even if the code after \ifnocopyright include a couple of
\pageinsert.... \endinsert commands.
As a stopgap I have printed and scanned each of the two pages, and I include
these as two consecutive \XeTeXpicfile commands. Apart from the fact that this
is intellectually unsatisfying, the scans (of full A4 pages) had to be done at
high resolution to achieve an acceptable result, and this greatly adds to the
length of the PDF of the contribution (with multiple occurrences it increases
the length of the PDF of the whole issue to an enormous extent, slowing down
processing).
I get the two \XeTeXpicfile pages exactly positioned by using \rput* from
PSTricks (the * usefully overwrites the cropmarks and running headlines), but I
can't see any specific instructions on how to position \XeTeXpdffile pages at
will - and I suspect that is the underlying problem that I need to overcome.
I'm sure all of this is very neatly handled by some XeLaTeX package, but for
various reasons it's best, at least for the time being, that I continue with
tried and tested plain XeTeX. I hope someone can help.
John
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