[XeTeX] from teTeX-3.0 to TeXLive 2007

[Bruno Voisin]

Le 22 août 07 à 10:55, Peter Dyballa a écrit :

> Am 20.08.2007 um 19:32 schrieb Pablo Rodríguez:
>
>> BTW, the other issue with page size seems to be that XeLaTeX  
>> overrides
>> the geometry page size specifications if dvipdfm is the selected
>> driver
>> for geometry:
>>
>> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
>> \usepackage[dvipdfm,a5paper]{geometry}
>> \begin{document}
>> Hi, this is a test.
>> \end{document}
>>
>> This might also be a bug.
>
> No, it's not. XeTeX writes a \special into the XDV file: pdf:pagesize
> width 423.94606pt height 597.50787pt. Both xdv2pdf and xdvipdfmx seem
> to read, understand, and apply this.

I'm not sure that's true any longer. XeTeX now uses the same  
\pdfpagewidth and \pdfpageheight primitives as pdfTeX, and as a  
consequence TeXLive-2007 includes a special configuration file tex/ 
xelatex/xetexconfig/geometry.cfg which, when read by XeLaTeX,  
specifies the pdftex driver.

On my Mac:

theo9mc182:~ bvoisin$ kpsewhich --progname=xelatex geometry.cfg
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/xetexconfig/geometry.cfg

As a consequence, don't specify the dvipdfm option. Let TeXLive-2207'  
intelligent XeTeX integration take care of selecting the appropriate  
geometry driver file for you.

Bruno Voisin