[XeTeX] Fwd: [powerdot] powerdot and xelatex

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Sat Jan 18 18:14:11 CET 2014


2014/1/18 Hendri Adriaens <spotje at gmail.com>:
> Hi Akira,
>
> Thanks for the information, sounds logical. Indeed, powerdot uses dvips. Is
> there no way to use dvips with xelatex? If not, I will have powerdot produce
> an error when running in xelatex.
>
dvips reads dvi but xe(la)tex can only produce xdv.

> Best regards,
> -Hendri.
>
> Op 18 jan. 2014 16:50 schreef "Akira Kakuto" <kakuto at fuk.kindai.ac.jp>:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>> the problem below was submitted to the powerdot mailinglist.
>>> Unfortunately, I have no knowledge about xelatex. I hope anyone on
>>> this list could have a quick look at this to see what is the problem.
>>> Thanks a lot in advance!
>>
>>
>> I think the powerdot is a package based on drivers
>> dvips + distiller (or ps2pdf).
>> Therefore XeLaTeX may not be a suitable engine
>> for the powerdot.
>>
>> Best,
>> Akira
>>
>>
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