[XeTeX] xdv2pdf vs xdvipdfmx

[Will Robertson]

On 2011-01-21 18:57:06 +1030, Oleg Parashchenko 
<olpa at uucode.com> said:

> what is the state of xdv2pdf? Is it ok to use this driver in production
> environment, or are there any issues? What xdvipdfmx provides, what
> xdv2pdf can not do?

It's probably safe to say that xdvipdfmx is the more supported option 
these days. In terms of functionality, xdvipdfmx can do things like 
pstricks support and better support for various PDF related functions, 
since it uses (an extended version of) dvipdfmx.

On the other hand, xdv2pdf can do font transparency and multiple 
master/AAT fonts and it accepts a greater range of image formats. I've 
long in the past had some issues printing from xdv2pdf-created PDFs, 
but nothing too serious.

> (Starting with 10.5, Mac OS X provides a font-from-file function.
> A test code does work under my 10.6.)

How does this work? Can you show an example?

Best wishes,
Will