[XeTeX] Background color does not work

[Youssef Cherem]

Carlos,

I'm not familiar with Xetex, only xelatex, but shouldn't you put the color name or code where the example reads "color"?


Em 03/08/2011, às 13:38, Carlos R. Mafra escreveu:

> 
> I am trying to modify the background color of a book I am typesetting using
> 'xetex'.
> 
> After searching on google I found the command
> 
> \special{x:backgroundcolor=color}
> 
> being mentioned on "About XeTeX" by Jonathan Kew. In that file it is
> mentioned that 
> 
> "The transforms.tex sample file demonstrates use of most of these \specials."
> 
> so I downloaded that file from the XeTeX homepage (it is inside XeTeX_doc.zip)
> and tried to compile it with 'xetex'.
> 
> The \special above does not work and I get this warnings (among others):
> 
> [mafra at Pilar:Samples]$ xetex transforms.tex
> This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9997.4 (TeX Live 2010)
> restricted \write18 enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./transforms.tex [1]
> ** WARNING ** No valid color specified?
> ** WARNING ** No valid color specified?
> ** WARNING ** Interpreting special command backgroundcolor (x:) failed.
> ** WARNING ** >> at page="1" position="(72, 769.89)" (in PDF)
> ** WARNING ** >> xxx "x:backgroundcolor=FFFFDD"
> ** WARNING ** >> Reading special command stopped around >>=FFFFDD<<
> 
> The pdf is produced but the background color does not have any effect (I tried
> some different colors too).
> 
> Does anyone have an idea about what is going wrong here and how to fix it?
> 
> 
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