[XeTeX] Xetex on linux as a batch generation tool

[Paul Howson]

On 04/09/2007, at 5:49 PM, Sebastian Hanigk wrote:

> Am 03.09.2007 um 22:05 schrieb Paul Howson:
>
> Hello!
>
>> Are you generating pdfs from the output of xetex? Can you describe
>> how this works and whether you encountered any problems with pdf
>> generation?
>
> As far as I know, XeTeX produces PDF by default from an extended DVI
> format via xdvipdfmx (or xdv2pdf on Macs); I haven't really
> encountered problems as such after the installation.
>
>> What kind of fonts have you used with xetex on this installation?
>
> I have access to some Adobe OpenType fonts and I have copied a few
> fonts from my OSX-installation for personal use onto the Solaris box;
> for most of my work I use the combination of Minion, Myriad, Lucida
> Sans Typewriter and the Minion-style for maths; Hoefler Text, Warnock
> and Kepler are sometimes used, too, but there is a bit of a clash
> between those fonts and the Computer Modern math fonts (but this is a
> typographical problem, not a software one).
>
> Hope that helps!

Thank you Sebastian. Yes that does help. It confirms that using xetex  
with OpenType fonts on unix systems is a possibility. That's what I  
wanted to know.


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