[XeTeX] XeTeX, colour, \special, \shipout

[Philip Taylor]

Jonathan Kew wrote:

> [...]
>
> To work, the background \special must have already been seen by the 
> driver at the time the page is shipped out, or it must be part of the 
> content of the page.

Aha, perfect, fully understood and that explains everything.  Thank you 
Jonathan, I can now revert to shipping out my own boxes :-)
** Phil.