[XeTeX] Newbie Alert: EPS to PDF question

Herbert Schulz herbs at wideopenwest.com
Wed Aug 15 23:29:54 CEST 2007


On Aug 15, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:

> On 15 Aug 2007, at 3:38 pm, Herbert Schulz wrote:
>
>>
>> On Aug 15, 2007, at 9:15 AM, Martin Schröder wrote:
>>
>>  it doesn't appear that xetex supports
>> the --shell-escape option which is necessary; at least xetex --help
>> doesn't give that option.
>
> Yes, it does:
>
>> Kew-PowerBookG4:~ jonathan$ xetex -help
>> Usage: xetex [OPTION]... [TEXNAME[.tex]] [COMMANDS]
>>    or: xetex [OPTION]... \FIRST-LINE
>>    or: xetex [OPTION]... &FMT ARGS
>>   Run XeTeX on TEXNAME, usually creating TEXNAME.pdf.
> <snip>
>> [-no]-shell-escape      disable/enable \write18{SHELL COMMAND}
>
> Though I don't remember when I last tested this; hope it still
> works! :-)
>
> JK

Howdy,

Ooops... must have been the leading [-no]... that threw me off :-(.  
By the way, it appears that the default is -shell-escape since I  
didn't need to add that to my xelatex engine and it still was able to  
process pdftricks \write18 commands.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)




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