[XeTeX] Default settings when making PDF?

Peter Dyballa Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE
Thu Jan 7 11:37:32 CET 2010


Am 07.01.2010 um 10:11 schrieb David J. Perry:

> What defaults does XeTeX use when the xdvipdf driver makes the PDF?

Which defaults exist in PDF that can be controlled?
Which defaults are you thinking of?

You can use (in TeX Live 2009) the file /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf- 
config/dvipdfmx/dvipdfmx.cfg (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/dvipdfmx/ 
dvipdfmx.cfg in TeX Live 2008) to configure some "defaults."  
Compression is increased by setting 'V 4' to 'V 5,' i.e., generating  
PDF version 1.5 output. You can also add different external commands  
to handle some graphics file types.


If it's not a typo, the output driver for the interim XDV output from  
XeTeX is  xdvipdfmx  – coming from dvipdfm, which has been extended to  
handle CJK fonts as dvipdfmx. Then this version learned to handle XDV.  
By making XeTeX stop at producing its XDV output file (-no-pdf) you  
can invoke xdvipdfmx with -vvvv to see (in 10,000 lines of output) how  
xdvipdfmx converts this file to PDF.

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