Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Mon, 2 Mar 2009 23:03:17 +0100 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n22M3G4U011453 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 23:03:16 +0100 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.94]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n22LwrsU025596 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 2 Mar 2009 22:58:54 +0100 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n22L9lI8021259; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 22:58:43 +0100 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.5) with spool id 197503 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 22:58:43 +0100 Received: from relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (relay2.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.210.211]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n22LwhfH017671 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 22:58:43 +0100 Received: from mail35.messagelabs.com (mail35.messagelabs.com [62.231.131.195]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id n22LwORE013379 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 22:58:27 +0100 X-VirusChecked: Checked X-Env-Sender: davidc@nag.co.uk X-Msg-Ref: server-5.tower-35.messagelabs.com!1236031103!27564623!1 X-StarScan-Version: 6.0.0; banners=nag.co.uk,-,- X-Originating-IP: [62.231.145.242] Received: (qmail 4100 invoked from network); 2 Mar 2009 21:58:23 -0000 Received: from nagmx1.nag.co.uk (HELO nagmx1.nag.co.uk) (62.231.145.242) by server-5.tower-35.messagelabs.com with SMTP; 2 Mar 2009 21:58:23 -0000 Received: from edinburgh.nag.co.uk (edinburgh.nag.co.uk [192.156.217.171]) by nagmx1.nag.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 055FF12015F for ; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 21:58:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from edinburgh.nag.co.uk (edinburgh.nag.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) by edinburgh.nag.co.uk (8.13.1/8.12.10) with ESMTP id n22LwNYG031015 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 21:58:23 GMT Received: (from davidc@localhost) by edinburgh.nag.co.uk (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id n22LwNdY031012; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 21:58:23 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: edinburgh.nag.co.uk: davidc set sender to davidc@nag.co.uk using -f References: <200903021910.n22JAUL17749@f7.net> Message-ID: <200903022158.n22LwNdY031012@edinburgh.nag.co.uk> Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 21:58:23 GMT Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: David Carlisle Subject: Re: \includegraphics, eps, pdf, and \write18 To: LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE In-Reply-To: <200903021910.n22JAUL17749@f7.net> (message from Karl Berry on Mon, 2 Mar 2009 13:10:30 -0600) Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-ProteoSys-SPAM-Score: -4 () RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.65 on 213.139.130.197 Return-Path: owner-latex-l@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Mar 2009 22:03:17.0599 (UTC) FILETIME=[B11866F0:01C99B82] Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 5695 This seems reasonable to me if the base system is modified to let "safe" commands through as you suggest. > So, I think that what's needed on the LaTeX side is for epstopdf's > functionality to be incorporated into graphics.dtx. Wouldn't this would go in pdftex.def which is no longer part of the core latex/graphics system so it can more easily track pdftex features? http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pdftex/pdftex.def %% %% The Current Maintainer of this work is %% Heiko Oberdiek and Martin Schr\"oder. %% Actually wouldn't it be enugh to simply say something like \ifpdf \RequirePackage{epstopdf}... in the graphics.cfg distributed with tex-live or other systems that have write18 turned on by default? David ________________________________________________________________________ The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ________________________________________________________________________