Re: kpathsea in xdvipdfmx source files

Am Fri, 5 Aug 2011 20:31:13 +0800 schrieb Daniel Greenhoe:


> But it is still with some anguish that I perhaps leave MikTeX behind
> after using it all these years just because I can't solve what should
> be a straightforward problem. I just can't understand why the example
> I sent out before would fail on my system but work perfectly on some
> (or all) other people's systems. Might you have any guesses why that
> might be, or how to go about debugging it without debugging xdvipdfmx
> at the c source file level? 


Well your problem is system dependent. It could be xdvipdfmx (e.g.
if you use the 64bit version which I don't), but it could also be
e.g. a virus program or something else: If you run 
xetex --output-driver="xdvipdfmx -vv" file
you can see that tons of external temporary files are processed. And
a lot of things can interfere there.

I personnally don't care much about pstricks on XeTeX. As soon as
the graphics get a bit more complex tt is so slow that it is not
really useful. I would always make either external graphics or use
tikz/pgf.


-- 
Ulrike Fischer 


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