(Please cc possible answers to me, I'm not subscribed to the list.)
Dear Akira,
With up-to-date pretest MacTeX-2021 I get the same as Herbert, and cannot
reproduce your output:
% xdvipdfmx TransparencyTest.xdv
xdvipdfmx:warning: Invalid char in fontmap line: D
xdvipdfmx:warning: Invalid map
> On 18 Mar 2021, at 23:40, Bruno Voisin wrote:
>
> To be sure I tried xdvipdfmx -vvv, the output is at the end of this message:
> there's a lot of font-related info, but no indication pstricks.pro is read at
> any time.
Some complementary information to my earlier message: compiling, still wi
> On 19 Mar 2021, at 06:49, Akira Kakuto wrote:
>
> Sorry, I'm not so familiar with Ghostscript and I don't understand the
> difference.
> The reported security problem is for Windows, so I think it is OK.
> In the latest dvipdfmx.cfg, I added -dSAFER explicitly in order not to allow
> dangerous
> On 19 Mar 2021, at 08:39, Bruno Voisin wrote:
>
> - To be sure, I added -dSAFER to dvipdfmx.cfg. That doesn't change a thing,
Please ignore what I wrote. I had created a modified dvipdfmx.cfg in
texmf-local/dvipdfmx, but forgot to run mktexlsr afterwards, so it wasn't used.
Silly me!
Anyway
> On 19 Mar 2021, at 13:47, Herbert Schulz wrote:
>
> If I now run
>
> xelatex -no-pdf TransparencyTest.tex
>
> and then
>
> xdvipdfmx TransparencyTest.xdv
>
> the output is still
>
> [...]
>
> and I get a correct PDF. So still no failure. Now that Bruno is also getting
> a failure I'm rea
> On 19 Mar 2021, at 14:09, Bruno Voisin wrote:
>
> I'll try to investigate later today what may have triggered the problem.
Thanks to much debugging by Herb Schulz off-list the source of the problem has
now been identified, I think.
There are two dvipdfmx.cfg in tlpretest:
% kpsewhich -progn
Does XeTeX support variable OpenType fonts, or is the addition of their support
planned at some point?
There does not seem to be any clear statement on the net about this, but based
on
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/355104/tex-luatex-xetex-fontspec-support-for-opentype-variable-fonts
h
> On 12 Jul 2022, at 22:46, Karl Berry wrote:
>
> Jonathan or Arthur or anyone can correct me, but so far as I have
> observed, no one has been working on such new xetex developments for
> years now.
>
> If there is anyone out there with sufficient time, interest, and skill,
> a volunteer would
> On 13 Jul 2022, at 19:05, Bruno Voisin wrote:
>
> Overleaf has a very nice technical article on TeX's support of emojis
>
> https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Articles/An_overview_of_technologies_supporting_the_use_of_colour_emoji_fonts_in_LaTeX
>
> discussing in detail why XeTeX doesn't su
