On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:59:34AM -0600, [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.
AFAIK, XDV have never been considered a portable format (neither is DVI, device independent and portable are two different concepts). > Device-independent files are no longer device-independent if they're tied > to one host's filesystem. Check the 4th paragraph in this interview for what device independence actually meant: http://www.tug.org/interviews/fuchs.html Regards, Khaled -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
