Hi,
Interesting. (No piece of code in the minimals did change in that respect, at least none that I would know of.) Maybe the old dvipdfmx.exe did not require the dll file to be present?
well, maybe.... and maybe I am wrong.
Does XeTeX also place MP graphics to the wrong place? (I still use mostly pdfTeX for documents that do not require any programming or foreign fonts, so I did not notice weird behaviour yet.)
yes, and it also point hyperlinks to the wrong place too. (see the latest latex/context war on this mailing list)
That's why I wonder if dvi-based workflows work at all. I've seen some issues and none of theme were likely to be fixed.
How different is it when you work with dvipdfmx compared to xetex or luatex?
well, the experience of using dvipdfmx \approx the experience of using xetex. but pdftex-> dvipdfmx is much faster and consumes much less space. and since luatex and xetex can hardly be used for production (because mkiv/luatex changes all the time, and context does not support xetex very well.), so I use pdftex (usually for English documents) or etex->dvipdfmx (usually for Chinese documents) for our journal. [Our compile server stay at the 2005.01.30 version and does not upgrade any more to ensure the document will always produce the same result during the years.] But usually I will use luatex for personal purpose like composing my essays. but I still use pdftex or etex-> dvipdfmx to prepare the draft documents before the final luatex compilation since they are quite fast (inasmuch as my old computer [Core 2 Duo T5050, 1G Mem] cannot suffice for such huge mem/cpu usage footprint). On the final compilation, I only adjust the layout and fonts. So LuaTeX is nice and can produce much better results at the cost of memory and speed ^_^ (and sometimes mkiv will run into problems and does not work as expected, so I have no choice but to downgrade the minimals)
BTW, the latest dvipdfmx driver supports metafun, as announced on the official web page of dvipdfmx.
That's nice :)
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