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-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 ...