[XeTeX] Drawing package for XeTeX in plain TeX?

[John Was]

Hi

Sorry for my incompetence re the LOG file.

Yes, there are plenty of error messages on the terminal from xdvipdfmx:

Unparsed material at end of special ignored.
Current input buffer is ---> pst: tx at Dict begin STP newpath 0.8 SLW 0. 
setgray ...
<---
and so on (I get this three times)

At the end I get  some further warnings:

Invalid object label: 1 0
Could not find a name object.
Could not find a key in dictionary object.
Couldn't read xref trailer.  Is this a correct PDF file?
No trailer.
Trailer not found! Corrupt PDF file?
pdf: image inclusion failed

These might all relate to a PDF file that I created by cropping a page from 
existing TeX PDF output (just using plain TeX, then distiller to create a 
PDF from a dvips PS file).  But interestingly, when I run XeTeX normally 
(without suppressing PDF output) the PDF file is correctly included without 
any problems.

Mysterious.  But really, don't spend time on this unless you enjoy it!

Best


John
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> --- John Was <john.was at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Well the LOG seems very happy with everything (see
>> below).  Perhaps it is
>> the transition to PDF that is the problem - but it
>> is odd that there are no
>> compiling errors, just no output!  Would you like me
>> to send you the .xdv
>> file?  (Probably best to your personal e-mail so as
>> not to clog up this
>> list - but it is just 24Kb.)
>
> At present, I cannot analyze xdv file, but if you can
> wait for a few days, I don't mind receiving it.
>
>> Here is the LOG:
>>
>> This is XeTeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996 (Web2C
>> 7.5.6) (format=xetex
>> 2007.5.14)  21 MAY 2007 09:25
>> entering extended mode
>>  %&-line parsing enabled.
>> **uniexp
> [...]
>> [1]
>> [2] [3] )
>> Output written on uniexp.xdv (3 pages, 24824 bytes).
>
> What you showed is a log from XeTeX, not from xdvipdfmx!
> Please run
>  xdvipdfmx uniexp.xdv
> and see what are shown on the terminal?
>
>> Best
>>
>>
>> John
>
> Regards,
> SMiyata
>
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