I have a small file:
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure*}
\includegraphics{fig}
\end{figure*}
\end{document}
accompanied of a figure in PDF, that when processed by pdflatex and lualatex produces a fine PDF, but when processed by "xelatex" the figure is rendered upside down. The figure is at:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jv8plo9k58s8cnl/fig.pdf
Does anyone know the reason for that?
This is an issue in (x)dvipdfmx: it does not support /Rotate 180. You won't see the warning with XeTeX unless you do the typesetting in two parts:
xelatex --no-pdf <test-file> && xdvipdfmx <test-file>.xdv
so perhaps it's easier to use dvipdfmx (with \usepakage[dvipdfmx]{graphicx}). In either case, running (x)dvipdfmx we get
warning: << /Rotate 180 >> found. (Not supported yet)
(extractbb also complains when using the dvipdfmx route: it is called during the latex run in that case.)
As commented by Hironobu YAMASHITA
In TeX Live r44953-44964 (August 2017), xe(la)tex and (x)dvipdfmx started support of /Rotate in PDF. Thus, no problem will happen in TeX Live 2018
graphicxor indeed LaTeX at all: one sees the same with a plain TeX test file such as\XeTeXpdffile fig.pdf\bye: I suspect the PDF itself is at fault./Creator (pdftk 2.02 - www.pdftk.com)/Producer (itext-paulo-155 \(itextpdf.sf.net-lowagie.com\))/Rotate 180.xdvipdfmx:warning: << /Rotate 180 >> found. (Not supported yet)