[Xy-pic] Fw: Update on pdftex support for xy-pic?

[Ross Moore]

Hi Kris,

It has been a long time since we've seen each other.
How's life treating you?


On 26/09/2008, at 1:09 PM, Kristoffer H Rose wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Does anyone have current info on PDF and Xy-pic to help Normand?


Yes. That server is really down, after ~12 years of service.
I hope to be able to get sites from it back up and running,
perhaps next week (but don't hold your breath :-).


The best way to get top-quality complicated Xy-pic diagrams
into pdfTeX-generated documents is to make images of them
--- using TeX+dvips+Ghostscript and the ps-backend for Xy-pic .

There are various ways to do this;
    e.g.  using  ps4pdf.sty  or  pdftricks.sty .
The latter uses TeX's  \write18  to run a sub-job from the
main pdfTeX job, then import the result of this as a PDF graphic.

Thus there is no loss of quality this way, and you can use
all the special PostScript features that we developed.
Also, images don't get updated unless their coding changes,
so the technique is quite efficient.



>
>
> Also: should we perhaps move the Xy-pic home page over to a wiki  
> page so we can more easily accumulate patches and such?

That's a good idea, provided someone is prepared
to put in the necessary work to set it up and keep
it well maintained.

>
>
> Cheers,
>         Kris


Hope this helps,

	Ross


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> ----- Forwarded by Kristoffer H Rose/Watson/IBM on 09/25/2008 11:03  
> PM -----
> Normand Leclerc <leclerc.normand at gmail.com>
> 09/19/2008 10:09 AM
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> To
> krisrose at tug.org
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> Subject
> Update on pdftex support for xy-pic?
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi Mr. Rose,
>
> I am looking to do xy diagrams on a pdf file generated from
> pdftex.  A throughout search from Google only gives the following
> link to a driver:
>
> http://www-texdev.ics.mq.edu.au/WARM/
>
> That link is deprecated, or the server really down.
>
> Where is the driver?
>
> And are there any instructions on how to setup the driver on
> Miktex?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> A note (on the home page of xy) would be helpfull too.
>
> Thanks in advance and xy is really interesting.
> Thank you to keep it alive.
> An xy author.
>
> -- 
> Cordialement,
> Normand                          Courriel : leclerc.normand at gmail.com
>
> Post-Joint : <none>.
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