[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




More information about the tex-live mailing list