[XeTeX] xelatex, hyperref, and new TeXLive

[David Carlisle]

On 15 June 2016 at 21:56, maxwell <maxwell at umiacs.umd.edu> wrote:
> We've downloaded and installed the new 2016 TeXLive distribution.  I was all
> set to be happy...but.  There seems to be an incompatibility between the new
> xelatex and the new hyperref package.  No matter what I do, I get the error
> msg:
> ----------------
> ! Package hyperref Error: Wrong DVI mode driver option `ps2pdf',
> (hyperref)                because XeTeX is running.
> ----------------
>
> We did not of course get this error with the TeXLive 2015 distribution.
>
> Here's the minimal file to trigger this error (ok, I could take out the word
> "test", but it's pretty minimal :-)):
> ----------------
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage[dvipdfmx]{hyperref}
> \begin{document}
> test
> \end{document}
> ----------------
>
> I've tried telling hyperref
>    [driverfallback=dvipdfm]
> instead, and I've tried telling xelatex
>     --output-driver=xdvipdfmx
> and a bunch of other things, with no effect.
>
> What do I yet lack?
>
>    Mike Maxwell
>    University of Maryland



odd: I didn't think anything had changed here, I'll test with tl2015
later, meanwhile your test file works for me with with texlive 2016
xelatex and

\usepackage{hyperref}

or equivalently with


\usepackage[xetex]{hyperref}


David

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