[XeTeX] Newbie Alert: EPS to PDF question

[Jonathan Kew]

On 15 Aug 2007, at 3:38 pm, Herbert Schulz wrote:

>
> On Aug 15, 2007, at 9:15 AM, Martin Schröder wrote:
>
>  it doesn't appear that xetex supports
> the --shell-escape option which is necessary; at least xetex --help
> doesn't give that option.

Yes, it does:

> Kew-PowerBookG4:~ jonathan$ xetex -help
> Usage: xetex [OPTION]... [TEXNAME[.tex]] [COMMANDS]
>    or: xetex [OPTION]... \FIRST-LINE
>    or: xetex [OPTION]... &FMT ARGS
>   Run XeTeX on TEXNAME, usually creating TEXNAME.pdf.
<snip>
> [-no]-shell-escape      disable/enable \write18{SHELL COMMAND}

Though I don't remember when I last tested this; hope it still  
works! :-)

JK