[DVIPDFMx] is it possible to support pdf stream in dvipdfmx ?

[luoyi]

Oh, I've just found even with your patched file, the following example
can't be compiled well:


% Example diagrams from the tutorial: Putting a Diagram in Chains
% Source: The TikZ & PGF manual
\documentclass{article}

\def\pgfsysdriver{pgfsys-dvipdfmx.def}
\usepackage[paperwidth=30cm, paperheight=15cm, margin=5mm]{geometry}
\usepackage{tikz}
\input pgfsys-dvipdfmx-patch.tex
\usetikzlibrary{chains,matrix,scopes,decorations.shapes,arrows,shapes,patterns,fadings}

\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}
    % Checker board
    \fill [black!20] (-1.5,-1.5) rectangle (3.5,1.5);
    \pattern [pattern=checkerboard,pattern color=black!30]
        (-1.5,-1.5) rectangle (3.5,1.5);
    \node at (0,0) [opacity=0.5,forbidden sign,line width=2ex,
        draw=red,fill=white]
        {Smoking};
    \begin{scope}[opacity=.5,transparency group]
        \node at (2,0) [forbidden sign,line width=2ex,draw=red,fill=white]
        {Smoking};
    \end{scope}
    \begin{scope}[xshift=4cm,yshift=-1.5cm,path fading=south]
        % Checker board
        \fill [black!20] (0,0) rectangle (4,3);
        \pattern [pattern=checkerboard,pattern color=black!30]
            (0,0) rectangle (4,3);
        \fill [color=blue] (0.5,1.5) rectangle +(1,1);
        \fill [color=blue,path fading=north] (2.5,1.5) rectangle +(1,1);
        \fill [color=red,path fading] (1,0.75) ellipse (.75 and .5);
        \fill [color=red] (3,0.75) ellipse (.75 and .5);
    \end{scope}
\end{tikzpicture}



\end{document}



the latex command just give me the following error:

! Undefined control sequence.
\pgfutil at addpdfresource@extgs ...urce at extgs@plain
                                                  {#1}
l.20         {Smoking};

? X
No pages of output.


could you help to improve it ? thx very much!

2009/2/28 Jin-Hwan Cho <jinhwan.cho at gmail.com>:
> On Feb 28, 2009, at 11:13 AM, luoyi wrote:
>
>> hi, it looks like dvipdfmx lacks some fancy featuer pdftex have. some
>> times ago, I want to use beamer slide transitions in my presentation.
>> but found it can't work well with dvipdfmx. and the author(Till) reply
>> to me:
>>
>> "indeed, they do not work. This is due to the fact that transitions
>> are hand-coded for pdflatex, currently. Beamer is only "indirectly"
>> aware of dvipdfm and does not support it very well. Support of dvipdfm
>> would be possible, but is not trivial."
>>
>> now, I want to use the pgf's fading operation, but it still doesn't be
>> supported by dvipdfmx:
>>
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=2B1154D2-CB60-4C38-AA8C-04C80A795B28%40tcs.uni-luebeck.de
>>
>> I want to know can we implement these things in dvipdfmx make it more
>> usable.
>
> It is possible to use the fading feature in PGF with dvipdfmx since June
> 2008.
> However, you need a new PGF driver for dvipdfmx which can be downloaded from
>
> http://project.ktug.or.kr/dvipdfmx/contrib/generic/pgfsys-dvipdfmx.def.version2
>
> You should replace $TEXMF/tex/generic/pgf/systemlayer/pgfsys-dvipdfmx.def to
> the above one
> after removing the trail ".version2".
>
> If you want the features, image masking and transparency, you need more work
> because the source code of PGF must be changed a little. To do that,
> download
>
> http://project.ktug.or.kr/dvipdfmx/contrib/generic/pgfsys-dvipdfmx-patch.tex.version2
>
> and then remove the trail ".version2". After that you must load that file
> after loading
> the PGF package as follows:
>
> \usepackage[dvipdfmx]{graphicx}
> \usepackage{tikz}
> \input pgfsys-dvipdfmx-patch.tex
>
> I emailed the author of PGF that I made a new driver for DVIPDFMx. But it
> was not
> accepted yet. I don't know the exact reason.
>
> Best regards, ChoF.
>