Hi,

> Interesting. (No piece of code in the minimals did change in that
> respect, at least none that I would know of.) Maybe the old
> dvipdfmx.exe did not require the dll file to be present?
>

well, maybe....  and maybe I am wrong.

> Does XeTeX also place MP graphics to the wrong place?
> (I still use mostly pdfTeX for documents that do not require any
> programming or foreign fonts, so I did not notice weird behaviour
> yet.)
>

yes, and it also point hyperlinks to the wrong place too.
(see the latest latex/context war on this mailing list)

>
> That's why I wonder if dvi-based workflows work at all. I've seen some
> issues and none of theme were likely to be fixed.
>
> How different is it when you work with dvipdfmx compared to xetex or luatex?

well, the experience of using dvipdfmx \approx the experience of using xetex.
but pdftex-> dvipdfmx is much faster and consumes much less space.
and since luatex and xetex can hardly be used for production (because
mkiv/luatex changes all the time, and context does not support xetex
very well.), so I use pdftex (usually for English documents) or
etex->dvipdfmx (usually for Chinese documents) for our journal. [Our
compile server stay at the 2005.01.30 version and does not upgrade any
more to ensure the document will always produce the same result during
the years.]

But usually I will use luatex for personal purpose like composing my
essays. but I still use pdftex or etex-> dvipdfmx to prepare the draft
documents before the final luatex compilation since they are quite
fast (inasmuch as my old computer [Core 2 Duo T5050, 1G Mem] cannot
suffice for such huge mem/cpu usage footprint). On the final
compilation, I only adjust the layout and fonts. So LuaTeX is nice and
can produce much better results at the cost of memory and speed ^_^
(and sometimes mkiv will run into problems and does not work as
expected, so I have no choice but to downgrade the minimals)

>
>> BTW, the latest dvipdfmx driver supports metafun, as announced on the
>> official web page of dvipdfmx.
>
> That's nice :)
>
> Mojca
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