diff -rupN rubber-1.1/src/rules/latex/__init__.py rubber-1.1.patched/src/rules/latex/__init__.py
--- rubber-1.1/src/rules/latex/__init__.py	2006-03-17 14:52:45.000000000 +0100
+++ rubber-1.1.patched/src/rules/latex/__init__.py	2012-04-06 20:23:43.922778974 +0200
@@ -954,6 +954,7 @@ class LaTeXDep (Depend):
 		self.seq = re.compile("\
 \\\\(?P<name>%s)\*?\
  *(\\[(?P<opt>[^\\]]*)\\])?\
+ *(\\[(?P<optb>[^\\]]*)\\])?\
  *({(?P<arg>[^{}]*)}|(?=[^A-Za-z]))"
  			% string.join(clean, "|"))
 
diff -rupN rubber-1.1/src/rules/latex/xmpmulti.py rubber-1.1.patched/src/rules/latex/xmpmulti.py
--- rubber-1.1/src/rules/latex/xmpmulti.py	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ rubber-1.1.patched/src/rules/latex/xmpmulti.py	2012-04-06 20:22:51.701963063 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+# This file is part of Rubber and thus covered by the GPL
+# (c) Jérémie Detrey, 2009
+"""
+Support for the package 'xmpmulti', part of Beamer distribution.
+"""
+
+from os.path import basename
+import rubber
+from rubber import _
+from rubber import *
+
+class Module (rubber.rules.latex.Module):
+	def __init__ (self, doc, dict):
+		self.doc = doc
+		self.env = doc.env
+		if doc.modules.has_key("graphics"):
+			self.graphics = doc.modules["graphics"]
+		elif doc.modules.has_key("graphicx"):
+			self.graphics = doc.modules["graphicx"]
+		else:
+			msg.error(_("package 'xmpmulti' requires 'graphics' or 'graphicx'"))
+			sys.exit(2)
+		doc.add_hook("multiinclude", self.multiinclude)
+
+	def multiinclude (self, dict):
+		if not dict["arg"]:
+			return 0
+		msg.log(_("requesting multi-layer graphics `%s'...") % dict["arg"], pkg="xmpmulti")
+		if dict.has_key("optb") and dict["optb"]:
+			dict["opt"] = dict["optb"]
+		suffix = ".0";
+		if dict.has_key("opt") and dict["opt"]:
+			opts = parse_keyval(dict["opt"])
+			if opts.has_key("format") and opts["format"]:
+				suffix = "-0." + opts["format"]
+		dict["arg"] += suffix
+		return self.graphics.includegraphics(dict)