[XeTeX] xdv2pdf vs xdvipdfmx

[Jjgod Jiang]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Will Robertson <wspr81 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> (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?

I assume you meant how to modify xdv2pdf and XeTeX to make it (like
\font\foo="[filename.ttf]") work?

I'm sure Jonathan knows very well about it since he is an expert of
ATSUI/ATS. With ATSFontActivateFromFileReference and
FMGetFontFromATSFontRef it's quite easy to create an ATSUI font from
user font files. If it doesn't work in xdv2pdf, probably just because
no one cared to implement it yet.

- Jiang