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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Zdenek Wagner wrote:<br>
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<div>I have never tried but could not you use \write18 to run
XeTeX from XeTeX? I am not sure whether it is supported.<br>
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It would seem that adding the command-line qualifier
"--shell-escape" is required in order that \write 18 be permitted,
but then we run into the problem that (with the benefit of
hindsight) we should have foreseen at the outset : the PDF file is
incomplete at this point —<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">XeTeX --shell-escape "Hoi-An TA menu
(separate pages).tex"<br>
This is XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.999992 (TeX Live
2020/W32TeX) (preloaded<br>
format=xetex)<br>
\write18 enabled.<br>
entering extended mode<br>
(./Hoi-An TA menu (separate pages).tex (./Hoi-An TA menu.xlsx.tex
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vegan vegan vegan omnivore [2]) [3] [4] [5] [6]This is XeTeX,
Version 3.14159265<br>
-2.6-0.999992 (TeX Live 2020/W32TeX) (preloaded format=xetex)<br>
restricted \write18 enabled.<br>
entering extended mode<br>
(./Hoi-An TA menu (combine pages).texSyntax Error: Couldn't find
trailer diction<br>
ary<br>
Syntax Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary<br>
Syntax Error: Couldn't read xref table<br>
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! Unable to load picture or PDF file '"Hoi-An TA menu (separate
pages).pdf"'.<br>
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l.28 ... - 0,666 \rulewidth \relax height \vsize }<br>
\relax<br>
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<i>Philip Taylor</i><br>
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