[OS X TeX] graphics with xelatex

Manuel Souto Pico m.soutopico at gmail.com
Tue Jul 3 11:49:14 EDT 2007


Thanks everyone for your replies.

Manuel

2007/7/3, Maarten Sneep <maarten.sneep at xs4all.nl>:
> On Jul 3, 2007, at 14:26, Herbert Schulz wrote:
>
> > On Jul 3, 2007, at 2:23 AM, Maarten Sneep wrote:
> >
> >> Since MetaPost uses an intermediate call to TeX, and then parses
> >> the dvi output, I don't think that text can be used in those
> >> figures when you really want to use metapost with xetex, but I
> >> gaven't tried this myself, so I'm not sure it will fail.
> >
> > A similar thing can be said about using pdftricks or pst-pdf since
> > they produce intermediate files that are not processed via xelatex.
>
> Well, if you replace a file as expected by metapost (a dvi file with
> text, to be placed in the metapost output) with a different file
> (pdf, or xdv), then you can expect the metapost run to fail. You can
> of course let metapost use tex, but then you don't get the font
> features from xetex.
>
> That was what I was trying to communicate: the intermediate files
> expected by metapost cannot be produced by xetex. The output of
> metapost will be compatible, as it is a subset of postscript, and the
> interpreted to get it into tex is written in tex, which should just
> port over to xetex. That still leaves the fonts though…
>
> Maarten
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