[tex-live] dvipdfmx still alive?
Alexander Grahn
A.Grahn at hzdr.de
Wed Mar 21 13:59:05 CET 2012
Good afternoon,
a while ago I proposed a patch on the dvipdfmx mailing list which solves the
broken pdf:fstream issue. It was first reported here
http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/tex-live/2010-September/027379.html
Unlike the pdftex counterpart
\pdfobj stream file {...}
and the dvipdfmx pdf special
pdf:image
which both find files in the current directory and in the TeX search path
(TEXINPUTS, fndb),
pdf:fstream
wants an absolute path plus file name, otherwise the file cannot be
found. The patch makes pdf:fstream behave like pdf:image as for locating
files.
I haven't got any feedback from the dvipdfmx developer so far. Moreover,
there hasn't been any activity in the CVS source for more than a year.
Is dvipdfmx still actively developed?
Kind regards,
Alexander Grahn
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