[XeTeX] [Pgf-users] xelatex doesn't support 'patterns'

[milksea]

However, dvipdfmx (not dvipdfm) has no such restrictions. The author of dvipdfmx Jin-Hwan Cho wrote a proper pgfsys-dvipdfmx.def to support many features.
XeTeX uses xdvipdfmx, it is based on dvipdfmx. But there're still some differences. I tried to use

    \def\pgfsysdriver{pgfsys-dvipdfmx.def}

compiled with XeTeX, but there're still some errors. We need a new pgfsys-xetex.def to support patterns, fading, etc.

-----Original Message-----
From: pgf-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:pgf-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Mojca Miklavec
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 7:19 AM
To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms
Cc: pgf-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Pgf-users] [XeTeX] xelatex doesn't support 'patterns'

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 21:52, narke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If using xelatex, 'patterns' will not get draw.
>
> Attached is a minimal example.  Does anyone know that?  I also found 
> the similar problem with 'shadings'.

This is a documented limitation. See "10.2 Supported Output Formats"
in pgfmanual.pdf (texdoc tikz):

File pgfsys-dvipdfm.def This is a driver file for use with (la)tex followed by dvipdfm. It includes pgfsys-common-pdf.def. This driver supports most of pgf’s features, but there are some restrictions:
1. In LATEX mode it uses graphicx for the graphics inclusion and does not support masking.
...
4. Patterns are not (cannot) be supported.
5. Functional shadings are not (cannot) be supported.

Mojca

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