[XeTeX] Re: [MacTeX] XeTeX

[William F. Adams]

On Wednesday, April 14, 2004, at 08:24  AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:

> And I'll see if I can do anything about the bloated PDFs that are 
> generated when you use CM fonts, as someone reported. To some extent, 
> I think this is an Apple issue, as the xdv2pdf tool generates PDF by 
> simply imaging with the Quartz engine to a PDF destination. But I may 
> be able to improve how it behaves.

I was thinking of suggesting a quick-dirty fix, but I think I would 
probably embarrass myself. I'd be glad to test anything you manage.

Has anyone looked into work-arounds like dumping to PostScript and 
re-distilling?

Have you considered an option for not embedding the fonts? Then you 
could print to .ps from Preview or TeXshop and distill from the .ps --- 
Acrobat Distiller will certainly be able to minimize font inclusion and 
subset appropriately then.

Also, Marcel Weiher's pdfcompress tool for Mac OS X might be of service 
to some people.

> I'm also painfully aware of the need for documentation, installer 
> improvements, etc.; this is only a beginning. Glad to see there are 
> people interested in it.

Hey! I've been hawking it for years now!

Really glad it's finally available ;)

(I'm not sounding like Lawson English am I?)

BTW - it works fine on Mac OS X 10.2.8 AFAICT, the non-install I 
reported initially was an error on my part, not fully cleaning up after 
a deleted Fink install.

One thing I'd like would be some sort of ``\special'' mechanism to 
access an arbitrary character slot --- the ``the'' ligature does _not_ 
get used in Jaguar, and in Panther only in the middle of a line.

Is there something along the lines of a ``\noboundarychar''?

Thanks again!

William

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