Jumping in middle of xetex command via PrintDraft

Question

PrintDraft uses xetex (which in turn uses ptx2pdf macros) to do the printing to pdf in Paratext.

Presumably, PT issues some command similar to xetex -output-driver=xdvipdfmx sample.tex

Our project and many others in our country are forced to use a broken font. As a result it is necessary to adjust the location of glyphs in the pdf. Someone much smarter than me has created a program which takes the pdf output from xdvipdfmx and runs it through a series of predetermined adjustments, creating a much better looking pdf.

The code I run from the command line to get this to work is xelatex -output-driver=“positiontweaker -a adjustments.txt” 12commands.tex. The program, positiontweaker, knows to call xdvipdfmx and then uses the instructions within adjustments.txt to fix the pdf.

My question is, is there any way to have PT issue a command to positiontweaker such as the one I’ve written here? I’m quite happy to type command line instructions (and have a macro built into Notepad++ to run this command), but it would be very convenient for our non-techy colleagues to be able to run nice looking drafts straight from PrintDraft.

Answer 1

As far as I can tell we don’t specify an output-driver argument when calling xetex. I presume this means we just get the default output driver.

I don’t see anyway in the current code to change this without doing some programming to make it possible.

Please submit this as an enhancement request to [Email Removed]. It would be very helpful for the prioritization committee if you could give them some rough idea of how many projects would benefit from this change.

Blessings,
anon451647