>> xetex --no-pdf test > > That doesn‘t work. Just the same as with pdf. This is only one of the commands you should run. It produces an intermediate test.xdv file which is then processed by: >> xdvipdfmx -vv test If you only ran xetex --no-pdf, you would have had the “old” PDF file, so it's no wonder you thought it “didn't work”. Arthur