[XeTeX] embedding PDF, 1.4 vs. 1.5
Late last year, I ran into a problem in which I could embed a PDF v1.4, but not v1.5 (I have not tried this with newer versions of PDFs, which are now up to 1.7). The problem and its work-around are described here: http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/xetex/2012-October/023677.html also http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2012-December/023869.html and in the preceding and following messages in those threads. The problem bit us again today. Fortunately, we now know the work-around. But my question is whether this is likely to get fixed in some future version of xetex? (We're using the TeXLive 2013 version = 3.1415926-2.5-0..3-2013060708.) Mike Maxwell -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
Re: [XeTeX] embedding PDF, 1.4 vs. 1.5
On 2014-06-17 11:31, maxwell wrote: Late last year, I ran into a problem in which I could embed a PDF v1.4, but not v1.5 (I have not tried this with newer versions of PDFs, which are now up to 1.7). The problem and its work-around are described here: http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/xetex/2012-October/023677.html also http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2012-December/023869.html The above work around involved a double conversion using pdf2ps, from PDF to PS and back again to PDF. If you happen to own a copy of Adobe Acrobat, Chris Green ran into another way to do it, documented here: http://grok.lsu.edu/Article.aspx?articleId=9869 I don't know whether there are quality differences using these two routes. Mike Maxwell -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
Re: [XeTeX] embedding PDF, 1.4 vs. 1.5
On 17.06.2014 17:38, maxwell wrote: On 2014-06-17 11:31, maxwell wrote: Late last year, I ran into a problem in which I could embed a PDF v1.4, but not v1.5 (I have not tried this with newer versions of PDFs, which are now up to 1.7). The problem and its work-around are described here: http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/xetex/2012-October/023677.html also http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2012-December/023869.html The above work around involved a double conversion using pdf2ps, from PDF to PS and back again to PDF. There are other less invasive options: pdftk old.pdf cat output new.pdf Or use another PDF library for reading/writing. When the file is written, PDF object compression of PDF-1.5 must be disabled. Yours sincerely Heiko Oberdiek -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
Re: [XeTeX] FakeBold vs TikZ
Hi Stefan, Marcin, and others, On 17/06/2014, at 7:29 AM, Stefan Solbrig wrote: Hi, Just compiled the document under TeX Live 2013 (all updates till the freeze) and still no dot. Interesting. I just tried with TeXLive 2013 and 2014 on different Macs. 2013 has the dot! 2014 does *not* have the dot. For the 2013 installation we have xdvipdfmx-0.7.9 For the 2014 installation, xdvipdfmx is version 20140317 I tried using xelatex -no-pdf to keep the .xdv file. Then renamed these and copied to the other machine, for processing with the other version of xdvipdfmx . If this would work, then it could identify whether the problem was in xdvipdfmx or due to what is put into the .xdv file. No joy came from this test. Instead, all I get is a fatal error: Invalid TFM ID: 0 . It seems that one cannot break up the processing any more, or at least not in the simple-minded way. Would one of the developers please explain how to do this kind of testing now. Earlier testing with TeX Live 2012, with xdvipdfmx-0.7.8 was just giving the similar error Output written on Tikz-test.xdv (1 page, 4856 bytes). Transcript written on Tikz-test.log. /usr/local/texlive/2012/bin/x86_64-darwin/xdvipdfmx Tikz-test.xdv - Tikz-test.pdf [1 ** ERROR ** TFM: Invalid TFM ID: 0 Output file removed. Cheers, Ross Ross Moore ross.mo...@mq.edu.au Mathematics Department office: E7A-206 Macquarie University tel: +61 (0)2 9850 8955 Sydney, Australia 2109 fax: +61 (0)2 9850 8114 -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
Re: [XeTeX] FakeBold vs TikZ
On Jun 17, 2014, at 7:53 PM, Ross Moore ross.mo...@mq.edu.au wrote: Interesting. I just tried with TeXLive 2013 and 2014 on different Macs. 2013 has the dot! 2014 does *not* have the dot. Howdy, That's strange... I saw no dot with either 2013 or 2014, both on Mac. Was you test on Linux? Good Luck, Herb Schulz (herbs at wideopenwest dot com) -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
Re: [XeTeX] FakeBold vs TikZ
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 10:53:40AM +1000, Ross Moore wrote: It seems that one cannot break up the processing any more, or at least not in the simple-minded way. Would one of the developers please explain how to do this kind of testing now. So called “native” fonts (AKA non-TFM fonts) are now stored in the XDV files using their full path not font name, so you can’t process XDV files using such fonts uless you have fonts in the exact same location (but whether this relates to the error you are seeing or not, I don’t no). Regards, Khaled -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
Re: [XeTeX] FakeBold vs TikZ
On Jun 17, 2014, at 11:04 PM, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 10:53:40AM +1000, Ross Moore wrote: It seems that one cannot break up the processing any more, or at least not in the simple-minded way. Would one of the developers please explain how to do this kind of testing now. So called “native” fonts (AKA non-TFM fonts) are now stored in the XDV files using their full path not font name, so you can’t process XDV files using such fonts uless you have fonts in the exact same location (but whether this relates to the error you are seeing or not, I don’t no). Regards, Khaled Howdy, Another Hmmm... I have the Latin Modern otf fonts set up as System Fonts (in ~/Library/Fonts). Could that be the reason I don't see the dot in either TL2013 or TL2014? Good Luck, Herb Schulz (herbs at wideopenwest dot com) -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
