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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2013-02-16 00:16:40 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2013-02-16 00:16:40 +0000
commit28374897bdf5d9066268d066aedbad7660c445ea (patch)
tree5ae2b01e9d9d4e320504ab32bf46a3bb990ee35f
parent805d2fce0319a5f690a9db16a91070278fc51ffe (diff)
mention xdv2pdf todos from jkew
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@29132 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
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diff --git a/Build/source/texk/xdvipdfmx/README b/Build/source/texk/xdvipdfmx/README
index 6bdbf514d83..530a050c8e6 100644
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+++ b/Build/source/texk/xdvipdfmx/README
@@ -11,3 +11,14 @@ and the xetex graphics primitives, as well as Unicode/OpenType text.
Like its direct ancestor dvipdfmx, this is free software and may be
redistributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
version 2 or (at your option) any later version.
+
+There is a hope to merge xdvipdfmx into dvipdfmx.
+
+Jonathan Kew mentions that in the past, XeTeX used a Mac-specific
+program xdv2pdf as the backend instead of xdvipdfmx. xdv2pdf supported
+a couple of special effects that are not yet available through
+xdvipdfmx: the Quartz graphics-based shadow support, AAT "variation"
+fonts like Skia, transparency as an attribute of font color, maybe other
+things. It would be nice for those things to continue to be supported,
+if anyone is looking for some nontrivial but not-impossible job and
+happens across this file ...