[OS X TeX] Creating a Sensible PDF Document

[Philipp Mathey]

Thanks Bruno !

I was in fact using xdvipdfmx together with the "-p letter -q -E"
option. Good to know that this suffices. By the way, the option "-q"
is not listed. Does it stand for "quiet" or something ? I think it  
suppresses some
command line output.
I tried a little experiment by compiling a document with
"xelatex -no-pdf ..." and then "xdvipdfmx (-q -E) ..."  and then  
sending the resulting pdf file it to
some server running Linux. It seems the -E didn't
have any effect on the size of the resulting pdf file.  I could read  
the pdf file
on the Linux system, using xpdf, with or without the -E option.

Thanks,
PM

On 7-Feb-07, at 12:55 PM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le 7 févr. 07 à 18:23, Philipp Mathey a écrit :
>
>> If I wanted to create a document with say xelatex that
>> can be read on some machine not running mac os x . say a system  
>> running Linux with xpdf,
>> would I have to choose the option to have all fonts embedded in  
>> the document
>> during the configuration phase even though this will create a much  
>> larger
>> document ? Is that the only way ?
>
> The option -E in Jonathan's suggestion
>
>   xelatex -output-driver="xdvipdfmx -q -E" myfile.tex
>
> tells precisely to always embed fonts. xdvipdfmx has apparently no  
> man page, but on the command line you can get:
>
>> $ xdvipdfmx
>> No dvi filename specified.
>> This is xdvipdfmx-0.3 by Jonathan Kew and Jin-Hwan Cho,
>> an extended version of DVIPDFMx, which in turn was
>> an extended version of dvipdfm-0.13.2c developed by Mark A. Wicks.
>>
>> Copyright (c) 2006 SIL International and Jin-Hwan Cho.
>>
>> This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>> it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>> the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
>> (at your option) any later version.
>>
>> Usage: xdvipdfmx [options] xdvfile
>> -c              Ignore color specials (for B&W printing)
>> -d number       Set PDF decimal digits (0-5) [2]
>> -l              Landscape mode
>> -f filename     Set font map file name [t1fonts.map]
>> -m number       Set additional magnification
>> -o filename     Set output file name [dvifile.pdf]
>> -p papersize    Set papersize [a4]
>> -r resolution   Set resolution (in DPI) for raster fonts [600]
>> -s pages        Select page ranges (-)
>> -t              Embed thumbnail images
>> -x dimension    Set horizontal offset [1.0in]
>> -y dimension    Set vertical offset [1.0in]
>> -z number       Set zlib compression level (0-9) [9]
>> -v              Be verbose
>> -vv             Be more verbose
>> -C number       Specify miscellaneous option flags [0]:
>>                   0x0001 reserved
>>                   0x0002 Use semi-transparent filling for tpic  
>> shading command,
>>                          instead of opaque gray color. (requires  
>> PDF 1.4)
>>                   0x0004 Treat all CIDFont as fixed-pitch font.
>>                   0x0008 Do not replace duplicate fontmap entries.
>>                 Positive values are always ORed with previously  
>> given flags.
>>                 And negative values replace old values.
>> -E              Always try to embed fonts, regardless of licensing  
>> flags.
>> -O number       Set maximum depth of open bookmark items [0]
>> -P number       Set permission flags for PDF encryption [0x003C]
>> -S              Enable PDF encryption
>> -T              Embed thumbnail images. Remove images files when  
>> finished.
>> -M              Experimental mps-to-pdf mode
>> -V number       Set PDF minor version [3]
>>
>> All dimensions entered on the command line are "true" TeX dimensions.
>> Argument of "-s" lists physical page ranges separated by commas,  
>> e.g., "-s 1-3,5-6"
>> Papersize is specified by paper format (e.g., "a4") or by  
>> w<unit>,h<unit> (e.g., "20cm,30cm").
>
> Bruno Voisin
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