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+$Id$
dvipdfmx and xdvipdfmx for TeX Live
===================================
+dvipdfmx is a DVI-to-PDF translator. It requires the Kpathsea library
+for patch searching.
This package is released under the GNU GPL, version 2, or (at your
option) any later version.
-dvipdfmx is now maintained as part of TeX Live.
-
Mailing list for bug reports and all discussion:
https://lists.tug.org/dvipdfmx; anyone can join the list, but it is not
necessary to join to post. Archives are public.
+dvipdfmx is now maintained as part of TeX Live, https://tug.org/texlive.
+Info on building only one program from TL, like this one:
+ https://tug.org/texinfohtml/tlbuild.html#Build-one-package
+TeX Live general build info:
+ https://tug.org/texlive/build.html
+
xdvipdfmx
=========
xdvipdfmx is an extended version of dvipdfmx, and is now incorporated in
-the same sources.
+the same sources. In the installation, dvipdfmx is a symlink to xdvipdfmx.
The extensions provided by xdvipdfmx provide support for the Extended DVI
(.xdv) format used by xetex, including support for platform-native fonts
@@ -47,17 +54,7 @@ happens across this file.
Hirata and its modified one, dvipdfm-kor, by Jin-Hwan Cho.
-2. Installation
- ------------
-
- Currently, dvipdfmx is distributed as part of TeX Live. For TeX Live users,
- please refer to the following site
-
- https://www.tug.org/texlive/svn/
-
- for an instruction on how to obtain and build the dvipdfmx program.
-
-3. Random number generating function
+2. Random number generating function
---------------------------------
Prefixes of font names are calculated by using a function which