[tex-live] Re: incremental pdf (was: Please enable ipc in tex)

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Mon Aug 2 16:27:05 CEST 2004


Karl Berry wrote:

>    why anything other than pdftex is still there and supported? As
>    "historical compatibility baggage"
>
>No, there are valid reasons for both routes.  pstricks, for example,
>cannot be supported in pdftex.
>  
>
actually, it can, by sort of processing the ps snippeds during the run 
(via gs)

a few good reasons for dvipdfmx are:

- aleph needs a dvi -> pdf converter
- some cjk languages have special demands and dvipdfmx is good in that

>This is not the right list for this discussion.
>  
>
-) 

Hans 

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