On Dec 18, 2012, at 10:59 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Dec 2012, Khaled Hosny wrote: >> For a couple of releases now, XeTeX will always put the absolute path >> of the font in the XDV to avoid the recurrent problem with XeTeX and > > Does this make XDV files non-portable? It may be that getting the correct > font, in the usual case of the XDV being generated and used immediately > through a pipe on the same machine, is important enough that this is the > Right Thing to do. But I am currently generating and using XDV files in > separate steps on a single machine, and it's not hard to imagine someone > wanting to do those in separate steps on separate machines. > Device-independent files are no longer device-independent if they're tied > to one host's filesystem. > > -- > Matthew Skala > [email protected] People before principles. > http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/
Howdy, I believe that .xdv files are inherently non-portable since available system fonts vary from system to system. In that same sense even .tex files to be compiled with (xe/lua)latex and using system fonts are no portable. The price you pay for using system fonts. Good Luck, Herb Schulz (herbs at wideopenwest dot com) -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
