Hi,<br><br>I am (still) working on a converter that will turn XML into LaTeX, and then into PDF, PostScript, JPEG and a few other formats. The goal is for this to run "lights out" (completely unattended) in a 24x7 print environment.<br>
<br>I'm planning to use XeLaTeX, largely because of the ability to support OTF fonts, Unicode characters, Asian and other complex scripting languages, etc. However ...<br><br>The XML format I'm working with allows arbitrary affine transformations to be specified for any object on the page. Scale and rotate seem pretty easy, but shear is going to be tough. The problem is that a) shear seems to require PSTricks, b) PSTricks, when used with XeTeX/XeLaTeX, seems to require Ghostscript, and c) I can't use Ghostscript because of GPL licensing restrictions.<br>
<br>Now PDF certainly supports all the same graphics state options as PostScript, including transformations. So it should not be necessary to go through PostScript. However, I don't know of a LaTeX package that will let me specify transformations like this for PDF. Have I missed something? Is this perhaps a hidden feature of xdvipdfmx that I can access through specials?<br>
<br>Thank you!<br><br>-pd<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse">----<div>The Tech Curmudgeon</div><div><a href="http://www.techcurmudgeon.com/" style="color:rgb(17, 65, 112)" target="_blank">http://www.techcurmudgeon.com</a></div>
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