From 28374897bdf5d9066268d066aedbad7660c445ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karl Berry Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:16:40 +0000 Subject: mention xdv2pdf todos from jkew git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@29132 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751 --- Build/source/texk/xdvipdfmx/README | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/Build/source/texk/xdvipdfmx/README b/Build/source/texk/xdvipdfmx/README index 6bdbf514d83..530a050c8e6 100644 --- a/Build/source/texk/xdvipdfmx/README +++ 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 ... -- cgit v1.2.3