[DVIPDFMx] %v and xdvipdfmx

Jin-Hwan Cho jinhwan.cho at gmail.com
Fri Aug 28 16:03:52 KST 2009


Hi, Karl.

Matthias and I agree with your changes. Thanks...

ChoF.

P.S. I am in the airplane going to Tokyo for the TeX conference in  
Japan.

On Aug 28, 2009, at 9:18 AM, Karl Berry wrote:

> ChoF, Matthias, all,
>
> Two things about the D settings in dvipdfmx.cfg have come up.
>
> 1) It seems that xdvipdfmx also reads dvipdfmx.cfg.  Unfortunately,
>   Jonathan did not have a chance to implement in xdvipdfmx the
>   -dCompatibilityLevel=%v which dvipdfmx.cfg now passes to ps2pdf.   
> The
>   result is just the empty string, hence syntax error.
>
>   Even if Jonathan did import the code, I don't really want to rebuild
>   again just for this.  Ok if we revert to -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3  
> for
>   the time being?  No need for you to change this in your tree, but I
>   wanted to check with you.
>
>
> 2) Akira says that the -dSAFER in ps2pdf is problematic for this  
> usage.
>   I asked him for details.  But supposing that's so, the only evident
>   workaround I see is to revert to calling rungs with all the other
>   options from ps2pdf.  (I don't see something like a -u in gs, so we
>   could undefine SAFER.)  As in (for us):
>
> D  "rungs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sPAPERSIZE=a0 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
> -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 -dAutoFilterGrayImages=false
> -dGrayImageFilter=/FlateEncode -dAutoFilterColorImages=false
> -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode -dUseFlateCompression=true - 
> sOutputFile=%o
> %i -c quit"
>
> (Except all on one line of course.)
>
> Wdyt?
>
> Thanks,
> Karl
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