[XeTeX] xdvipdfmx broken on Windows Vista?
Toralf Senger
Senger at mpimp-golm.mpg.de
Sun Apr 22 13:31:36 CEST 2007
Dear all (or maybe Jonathan, Akira?),
xdvipdfmx seems to be unable to embed PDFs on Windows Vista (or is gswin32 v8.54 the culprit?). This is what i tried:
On Windows Vista:
xelatex test.tex -->no pictures in output PDF
xelatex --no-pdf test.tex
xdvipdfmx test.xdv -->no pictures in output PDF
Taking that xdv (created on Vista) and running xdvipdfmx on my Powerbook works. Here the logs:
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Windows Vista:
C:\TeX-Dokumente>xdvipdfmx PhD-Thesis.xdv
Test.xdv -> Test.pdf
[1
** WARNING ** Interpreting special command ET (ps:) failed.
** WARNING ** >> at page="1" position="(106.347, 522.281)" (in PDF)
** WARNING ** >> xxx "PSfile="../Abbildungen/ThesisFig4.pdf" llx=12.9514 lly=190
.2..."
** WARNING ** >> Reading special command stopped around >>"../Abbildungen/Thesis
Fig4.pdf" llx=12.9514 lly=190.28596 ur...<<
]
7772 bytes written
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MacOS:
bla:~/TeX/Documents root# xdvipdfmx Test.xdv
Test.xdv -> Test.pdf
[1
** WARNING ** "ArtBox" different from current CropBox found.
** WARNING ** ArtBox (PDF): [ 3.9751 191.853 465.842 837.793 ]
** WARNING ** CropBox/MediaBox (PDF) : [ 0 0 595 842 ]
]
515048 bytes written
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Do you have any idea what could cause this problem? UAC is swiched on (-->Programms are not allowed to write in system directories), but I executed the command line using "Run as Adminstrator". I used the newest compilation of w32tex. The error "Interpreting special command.. failed" thems to differ: When I do the same with my a big document (about 200 Pages, >50 figures), I get also a perfect pdf, just now pictures and >50 error messaages from xdvipdfmx saying "Interpreting special command bcolor (ps:) failed"
Puzzled,
Toralf
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