[XeTeX] Version 0.87 released

[Jonathan Kew]

On 27 Sep 2004, at 7:07 am, Christopher Creutzig wrote:

> Jonathan Kew wrote:
>
>> Not quite: I don't have a way to embed arbitrary PDF code.
>
>  It may be a sign of my extremely limited knowledge of pdf, but: Why 
> not?  What stops the dvx2pdf converter from "simply" passing through 
> all specials starting with "pdf:"?
>

Because xdv2pdf doesn't directly generate the PDF output. It renders 
the document by drawing in a CoreGraphics (Quartz2D) context with a PDF 
destination, but the actual PDF generation is done by the OS X 
CoreGraphics subsystem. And CG doesn't offer APIs to insert arbitrary 
PDF fragments into the generated stream.

Jonathan