[OS X TeX] XeLaTeX in Acrobat

[François Chaplais]

Le 5 mars 08 à 10:37, Bruno Voisin a écrit :

> Adobe Reader and Acrobat use their own PDF rendering engine, which  
> is different from the built-in OS X rendering engine used by other  
> applications (Preview, TeXShop, ...). What you see is a  
> manifestation of that.
>
> I tried with your test file and the two XDVI-to-PDF drivers XeLaTeX  
> can use: the default (for now) xdv2pdf and the alternative (for  
> now) xdvipdfmx. Both embed the fonts (Cochin and Zapfino) properly,  
> thus there's no problem there. It really just comes down to how  
> Adobe applications render PDF, namely to how they use font hints to  
> draw on screen.
>
> Remember that Adobe applications for the Mac are essentially second- 
> thought hasty Mac ports of Windows applications, though that  
> probably isn't the only cause for the problem, given you experience  
> the same rendering issues with Acrobat on Windows.
>
> Here are screenshots on what I see with Acrobat and Preview (on  
> Leopard 10.5.2):
>
> http://homepage.mac.com/bvoisin/.cv/bvoisin/Sites/.Public/ 
> Acrobat.png-zip.zip
> http://homepage.mac.com/bvoisin/.cv/bvoisin/Sites/.Public/ 
> Preview.png-zip.zip

Thanks Bruno for your help.

 From your screenshots, it appears that your Acrobat rendering is  
better than my son's or what I get for windows. If you are willing to  
look, the pdf produced by XeLateX and TeXShop (with standard  
settings,"Regular") is here
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/francois.chaplais/test.pdf
A screenshot of what I get with the Latest Acrobat for windows with  
win XP SP2 under VMWare Fusion is here
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/francois.chaplais/AcroWin.jpg
 From what I have seen on the XeTeX site ( http://scripts.sil.org/cms/ 
scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=xetex_download )
XeTeX has not been updated since 2006, so I assume I have the latest  
version.

Or maybe the pdf engine has changed for Leopard? I am under 10.4.11.

Best

	François