On Jan 25, 2011, at 5:30 AM, Oleg Parashchenko wrote: > Hello Herb, > > On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:29:59 -0600 > Herbert Schulz <he...@wideopenwest.com> 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, which just lost competition > to xdvipdfmx? > > For my work, the use of MAC OS X PDF-generation API is an important > feature, which I'd like to try to use. But first, I want to be sure that > I'm not betting on a wrong horse.
Howdy, Only guessing but I'm not sure but I'd guess that it is simply a matter of having to spend time maintaining the driver that is most useful to the most people (i.e., those using non-Mac platforms too) leaves little to no time for trying to maintain xdv2pdf. It has been a long time since I've used xdv2pdf. > >> The xdvipdfmx back end is used on all platforms. >> >> The pdfsync package has been superseded by synctex built into (e/xe/pdf) >> tex; you need to set --synctex=1 as an option to (e/xe/pdf)tex > > So, as I understand, synctex functionality does not depend on a driver? > I'd guess that it does depend upon the driver but I'm not sure. I do know that it works with xelatex using the xdvpdfmx driver. Good Luck, Herb Schulz (herbs at wideopenwest dot com) -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
