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diff --git a/Build/source/texk/xdvipdfmx/README b/Build/source/texk/xdvipdfmx/README deleted file mode 100644 index 530a050c8e6..00000000000 --- a/Build/source/texk/xdvipdfmx/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,24 +0,0 @@ -README for xdvipdfmx -==================== - -xdvipdfmx is an extended version of dvipdfmx; see dvipdfmx's README for -more information. - -The extensions provided by xdvipdfmx provide support for the Extended DVI -(.xdv) format used by xetex, including support for platform-native fonts -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 ... |