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Peter Dyballa wrote:
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Am 05.06.2011 um 14:06 schrieb Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd):
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<blockquote type="cite">What am I missing, please ?
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Mac OS X's deprecated xdv2pdf.
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And yet, Tikz/PGF can achieve transparency using the default driver
(xdvipdfmx (0.7.8)),<br>
as Matthew Skala kindly pointed out and went on to demonstrate. So how
is it, I am<br>
forced to ask, that an add-on package can achieve something that the
underlying<br>
engine cannot ? This seems very odd to me.<br>
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Andy Lin wrote :<br>
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<pre wrap="">IIRC, the fontspec manual mentions that font transparency through font
loading commands is only available on Macs because it requires the
xdv2pdf driver.
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Unfortunately fontspec is targeted solely at (Xe)LaTeX users, whereas
Will <br>
Robertson's "<i>X</i>Ǝ<i>TEX reference guide</i>" is targeted at all
users of XeTeX and<br>
makes no mention under the entry for the extended syntax of \font that<br>
some of the options are not universally applicable, whence my confusion.<br>
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Philip Taylor<br>
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