[OS X TeX] XeTeX and pdfpages: no dice?

[Bruno Voisin]

> De : caapv 208
> Date : 12 avril 2007 14:13:06 HAEC
> À : Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms
> Objet : Rép : [XeTeX] [OS X TeX] XeTeX and pdfpages: no dice?
> Répondre à : Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms
>
> --- Bruno Voisin <bvoisin at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't think it is absolutely impossible to make
>> pdfpages work with
>> XeLaTeX. But that's not easy.
>
> All you need are there as long as drivers are concerned.
> Unfortunately it is not the whole story, however.
> See the 2nd entry of
> http://scripts.sil.org/svn-view/xetex/TRUNK/TODO?r1=443&r2=450
> and consider why Jonathan wrote this :)
>
>> - Be recognized by the graphics package. That's the
>> case: the
>> graphics package has an option [xetex] for xdv2pdf
>> and an option
>> [dvipdfmx] for xdvipdfmx.
>
> xdvipdfmx understands both [xetex] and [dvipdfmx]
> options, but [xetex] is the prefered one now.
>
>> - Provide facilities equivalent to pdfTeX's
>> \pdfpageattr, \pdfannot,
>> \pdfthread and \pdfdest, so that one may implement
>> the same
>> functionality as the following code from
>> pppdftex.def:
>
> The syntax for the specials for xdv2pdf and for
> xdvipdfmx are the same, as indicated by the fact that
> they share the same [dvipdfm] option for the hyperref
> package.  So this is the easiest part.
>
>> Bruno Voisin
>
> Regards,
> SMiyata
>
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