[XeTeX] Problems with crop package?

[Jonathan Kew]

I've had a quick look at the crop.sty package, as there was a report  
that it didn't work with XeLaTeX.

Turns out that it will *almost* work if you tell it to use the dvips  
driver, as this sets the media size using a papersize=... \special,  
and XeTeX now supports this.

However, it doesn't *quite* work because crop.sty interferes with  
LaTeX's \AtBeginDvi feature, which is used to get the \special into  
the output. The result is that the media size doesn't get set until  
the second page, and you get a warning message from xdv2pdf.

The right solution would be a minor update to crop.sty, such that it  
would recognize xetex as a back-end (currently, it doesn't know what  
to do with it) and use the \special{papersize=...} mechanism, and fix  
the problem with \AtBeginDvi. For now, rather than trying to modify  
the .sty file itself, here is a crop.cfg file that achieves the same  
effect. It patches a couple of crop.sty macros in order to restore  
proper \AtBeginDvi functionality, and selects the dvips driver.

It looks like this is sufficient for basic crop-mark functionality;  
various more advanced features that depend on interaction with color  
and graphics (like the "mirror" and "invert" options) don't seem to  
work fully. I don't have time to investigate this further for now.

To try this, put crop.cfg into ~/Library/texmf/tex/xelatex or your  
equivalent location.

- JK

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