[DVIPDFMx] dvipdfm?

[Liu DongMiao]

Dear Martin,

Why we need dvipdfmx?

pdflatex need we to generate much types of fonts.
For example, if we want to install our font for it, we need TFM, PFB,
MAP, and may FD.
But for latex+dvipdfmx, we only need TFM+PFB, or
TFM+TTF/OTF+cid-x.map+optional FD(For CJK).

For CJK fonts, we can suppose that all the fonts have one glyph, and
we only one tfm and many links.


Best regards,
Liu DongMiao

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 07:52, Jin-Hwan Cho <jinhwan.cho at gmail.com> wrote:
> 1. in the case when you cannot use the pdftex engine, e.g.,
>        (a) Japanese pTeX + dvipdfmx
>        (b) XeTeX + xdvipdfmx
>
> 2. in the case when you want CID-keyed font technology (usually for CJK
> languages)
>
> 3. in the case when you want a PDF output of smaller size (sometimes much
> smaller)
>
> 4. in the case when you have a DVI file without TeX source
>
> 5. in the case when you make a document with many many pages
>
> Anything else? I have no idea yet.
>
> ChoF.
>
> On Nov 9, 2009, at 11:58 PM, Martin Monperrus wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> In which situations is it better to use tex + dvipdfm rather than pdftex?
>> why?
>>
>> Thanks in adance for the answer,
>>
>> Martin
>>
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