Re: kpathsea in xdvipdfmx source files

On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Ulrike Fischer <[email protected]> wrote:
> You could use debugview (http://www.miktex.org/diagnosing) to find
> out how exactly miktex calls its ghostscript when processing the
> tmp-files.

Thanks Ulrike --- that's a very interesting and potentially very
useful capability. I didn't know about it before.

Dan

On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Ulrike Fischer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am Sat, 6 Aug 2011 06:41:23 +0800 schrieb Daniel Greenhoe:
>
>>> If you run xetex --output-driver="xdvipdfmx -vv" file
>>> you can see that tons of external temporary files are processed.
>
>> I have tried that option, but the information it provides doesn't seem
>> to be to useful. It seems to be basically just a list of temporary
>> files.
>
> Yes, but it shows you how much temporary files are processed for
> your rather simple graphics.
>
>> What format are those files even in? For example, after running
>>   xelatex with the --output-driver="xdvipdfmx -vv" option, I get one
>> file containing this:
>>
>> (c:/p/miktex29/dvips/pstricks/pstricks.pro) run
>> (c:/p/miktex29/dvips/pstricks/pst-algparser.pro) run
>> (c:/p/miktex29/dvips/pstricks/pst-tools.pro) run
>> (c:/p/miktex29/dvips/pstricks/pst-dots.pro) run
>> (c:/p/miktex29/dvips/pst-node/pst-node.pro) run
>> (c:/p/miktex29/dvips/pst-3d/pst-3d.pro) run
>> (c:/p/miktex29/dvips/pst-math/pst-math.pro) run
>> (c:/p/miktex29/dvips/pstricks-add/pstricks-add.pro) run
>> [1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 72.000000 769.890000] concat 486.286609 -13
>> 6.911889 translate 0 0 moveto
>> (C:/Users/dan/AppData/Local/Temp/mik5CFF.tmp) run
>>
>> save
> [...]
>> count 1 sub {pop} repeat restore
>>
>> What language is the syntax from? I thought it might be postscript,
>
> looks like postscript. When I look in my temp-folder I find tmp
> files beloging together. E.g. a mik3F6 looking like your above,
> including a mik3F5 and mik3F4 which contains only simple postscript
> and a mik3f7 which looks like the generated pdf.
>
>> but ghostscript doesn't seem to know what to do with it.
>
> You could use debugview (http://www.miktex.org/diagnosing) to find
> out how exactly miktex calls its ghostscript when processing the
> tmp-files.
>
>
> --
> Ulrike Fischer

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