[XeTeX] pst-fill boxfill failure when compiling with XeLaTeX

[Daniel Greenhoe]

Hello Roger,

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 10:29 PM, Ross Moore <ross.moore at mq.edu.au> wrote:
> There are several environments that help with this kind of thing;
> e.g., ... Xy-pic's  \xyimport  function.
> The latter is extremely versatile, as it sets up a coordinate system based on the size of the imported image, without needing to know explicit dimensions.

That sounds very interesting and powerful. Thank you for telling me
about it. I may give it a try at some time in the near future.

Dan

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 10:29 PM, Ross Moore <ross.moore at mq.edu.au> wrote:
> Hello Daniel,
>
> On 14/06/2017, at 7:45, "Daniel Greenhoe" <dgreenhoe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Probably the most important reason I would like the XeTeX environment
>> is because of the unicode font handling and ease of font switching
>> (when the graphic includes text). However, even in that case, I could
>> render the graphic with dvips+ps2pdf (as you said) and then apply the
>> text on top of that using XeTeX.
>
> There are several environments that help with this kind of thing;
> e.g.,   LaTeX's  {picture}  environment
>           Tikz
>            Xy-pic's  \xyimport  function.
>
> The latter is extremely versatile, as it sets up a coordinate system based on the size of the imported image, without needing to know explicit dimensions.
> Then you can use it to go anywhere within the image and use any of Xy-pic's graphic elements to place text, draw lines and arrows in different styles, put frames around parts of the picture, and much more. All this in a coordinate independent way, in case you decide to rescale the imported image, but retain the same font sizes.
>
>>
>> Thank you again,
>> Daniel
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>    Ross
>
>
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