specials for PDF generation
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DVIPDFM(x) manages various PDF effects by means of DVI specials. Appropriate documentation of DVI specials, however, is not easy to find, and exact functionality is not simple to catch without reading the source code of DVI drivers. This paper deals with the DVI specials defined in DVIPDFM(x) that are mainly used for PDF generation. We discuss the features of those specials with some examples, many of which are not documented elsewhere.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009