2 Jan
2009
2 Jan
'09
3:30 p.m.
2009/1/2 Jonathan Fine
Please could I be told, what are the main benefits of directly producing PDF?
Reasoning about and manipulating included PDFs. This is much harder with a two-pass engine like XeTeX + postprocessor; as an example compare the knowledge of XeTeX (the program) and pdfTeX about included PDFs.
BTW, Jonathan Kew said recently (on c.t.t) that XeTeX can use two processors on a multicore machine precisely because typesetting and PDF generation are decoupled, via xdv.
I doubt the speed gained from that is high for most documents. But as I said: Show us your code. Best Martin