xdvipsk: extended dvips (TeXLive 2025)

It has a few base extensions:

• one allows flexible inclusion of bitmap images
• another extension solves a quite long-standing task -- adds OpenType font support to dvips
• accepts font map \special commands with prefixes mapfile and mapline
• extends with Lua callbacks for specials, drawchar, drawrule and stack
• ToUnicode CMaps support through adding GlyphNames2Unicode dictionary to T1 and OpenType fonts
• accepts glyph names to unicode \special commands with prefixes g2umapfile and g2umapline
• accepts GlyphNames2Unicode dictionary directly from <FONT_FILE_NAME>.g2u file
• supports dvi OpenType font gid encoding with appropriate mapline and activated by \special{vtex:settings.xdvipsk.opentype={enc=gid}}

Source code repository at:

https://github.com/vtex-soft/xdvipsk.git

Email bug reports, remarks, etc. to [email protected].

Developers and maintainers:

Arūnas Povilaitis
Sigitas Tolušis
Mindaugas Piešina

More info:

• Overview
• Usage
• DeveloperNotes
• Building

It is successor and minimized version of:

https://github.com/vtex-soft/texlive.xdvipsk.git