Re: [XeTeX] xdv2pdf vs xdvipdfmx

2011-01-31 Thread Oleg Parashchenko
Hello Will, On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:30:16 +1030 Will Robertson wrote: ... > > (Starting with 10.5, Mac OS X provides a font-from-file function. > > A test code does work under my 10.6.) > > How does this work? Can you show an example? Yes, see below. Disclamer: it is my first experience in Mac

Re: [XeTeX] xdv2pdf vs xdvipdfmx

2011-01-29 Thread Jjgod Jiang
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote: > At this point, a more worthwhile activity - if someone is interested in > reworking the OS X font code in xetex & friends to use newer APIs - would be > to replace the use of ATSUI with Core Text. (This would also break > compatibility wit

Re: [XeTeX] xdv2pdf vs xdvipdfmx

2011-01-29 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 29 Jan 2011, at 13:46, Jjgod Jiang wrote: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Will Robertson wrote: >>> (Starting with 10.5, Mac OS X provides a font-from-file function. >>> A test code does work under my 10.6.) >> >> How does this work? Can you show an example? > > I assume you meant how to

Re: [XeTeX] xdv2pdf vs xdvipdfmx

2011-01-29 Thread Jjgod Jiang
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Will Robertson wrote: >> (Starting with 10.5, Mac OS X provides a font-from-file function. >> A test code does work under my 10.6.) > > How does this work? Can you show an example? I assume you meant how to modify xdv2pdf and XeTeX to make it (like \font\foo="[fil

Re: [XeTeX] xdv2pdf vs xdvipdfmx

2011-01-29 Thread Herbert Schulz
On Jan 29, 2011, at 4:00 AM, Will Robertson wrote: > ... >> (Starting with 10.5, Mac OS X provides a font-from-file function. >> A test code does work under my 10.6.) > > How does this work? Can you show an example? > > Best wishes, > Will Howdy, I'm interested in this too. I do know that I'

Re: [XeTeX] xdv2pdf vs xdvipdfmx

2011-01-29 Thread Will Robertson
On 2011-01-21 18:57:06 +1030, Oleg Parashchenko said: what is the state of xdv2pdf? Is it ok to use this driver in production environment, or are there any issues? What xdvipdfmx provides, what xdv2pdf can not do? It's probably safe to say that xdvipdfmx is the more supported option these d

Re: [XeTeX] xdv2pdf vs xdvipdfmx

2011-01-27 Thread Jjgod Jiang
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Oleg Parashchenko wrote: > My use case is an application of Quartz filters. A document has a lot of > images (PDF format, some text plus 1200dpi photos). The generated PDF is > of 300 Mb. If I apply the Quartz filter "Reduce File Size" to rescale > bitmaps to 300d

Re: [XeTeX] xdv2pdf vs xdvipdfmx

2011-01-27 Thread Oleg Parashchenko
Hello Jjgod, On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:08:57 +0100 Jjgod Jiang wrote: ... > > I think Jonathan has explained it a few times on this list: Thanks for great summary! It'd be nice to put the summary to a XeTeX wiki, but the only one I have found (xetex.tk) seems read only. ... > > To summarize, th

Re: [XeTeX] xdv2pdf vs xdvipdfmx

2011-01-25 Thread Herbert Schulz
On Jan 25, 2011, at 5:30 AM, Oleg Parashchenko wrote: > Hello Herb, > > On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:29:59 -0600 > Herbert Schulz wrote: > > ... >> If I had to guess I would say that xdv2pdf is dead and there will be no >> more work done on it. > > Pity. Any ideas why it has happended? Does xdv2pdf

Re: [XeTeX] xdv2pdf vs xdvipdfmx

2011-01-25 Thread Jjgod Jiang
Hi Oleg, On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Oleg Parashchenko wrote: >> If I had to guess I would say that xdv2pdf is dead and there will be no >> more work done on it. > > Pity. Any ideas why it has happended? Does xdv2pdf have some fatal flaws, > or does it a normal produciton-quality driver, wh

Re: [XeTeX] xdv2pdf vs xdvipdfmx

2011-01-25 Thread Oleg Parashchenko
Hello Herb, On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:29:59 -0600 Herbert Schulz wrote: ... > If I had to guess I would say that xdv2pdf is dead and there will be no > more work done on it. Pity. Any ideas why it has happended? Does xdv2pdf have some fatal flaws, or does it a normal produciton-quality driver, whi

Re: [XeTeX] xdv2pdf vs xdvipdfmx

2011-01-21 Thread Herbert Schulz
On Jan 21, 2011, at 8:17 AM, Oleg Parashchenko wrote: > Hello, > > what is the state of xdv2pdf? Is it ok to use this driver in production > environment, or are there any issues? What xdvipdfmx provides, what > xdv2pdf can not do? > > So far, I know that xdv2pdf works only under Mac OS X and ca

[XeTeX] xdv2pdf vs xdvipdfmx

2011-01-21 Thread Oleg Parashchenko
Hello, what is the state of xdv2pdf? Is it ok to use this driver in production environment, or are there any issues? What xdvipdfmx provides, what xdv2pdf can not do? So far, I know that xdv2pdf works only under Mac OS X and can not load fonts directly from files. The first is ok for me, and the

[XeTeX] xdv2pdf vs xdvipdfmx

2011-01-21 Thread Oleg Parashchenko
Hello, what is the state of xdv2pdf? Is it ok to use this driver in production environment, or are there any issues? What xdvipdfmx provides, what xdv2pdf can not do? So far, I know that xdv2pdf works only under Mac OS X and can not load fonts directly from files. The first is ok for me, and the