[XeTeX] Drawing package for XeTeX in plain TeX?

[Akira Kakuto]

> Thanks very much for that advice on PGF/TikZ.  As a novice with XeTeX I'm 
> still getting to grips with things, and I guess I've chosen just the wrong 
> time to get started since the TexLive2007 implemenation seems already 
> slightly out of date for handling some of the latest packages.

XeTeX in TeXLive 2007 is the latest one.
No newer XeTeX is released yet.

> I'm very proud of the fact that so far I've managed to crash XeTeX at least 
> twenty times when trying to use some of the PS fonts in my EmTeX 
> installation!  And it doesn't like some of the Windows fonts on my system, 
[...]

You have to run a command
fc-cache -v
in order to create data files for fontconfig.
Did you do that?

-- 
Akira Kakuto