Dvipdfmx (formerly dvipdfm-cjk) is a development of dvipdfm created to support multi-byte character encodings and large character sets for East Asian languages. Dvipdfmx, if “called” with the name dvipdfm, operates in a “dvipdfm compatibility” mode, so that users of the both packages need only keep one executable.

A secondary design goal is to support as many “PDF” features as does pdfTeX.

There being no documentation as such, users are advised to consult the documentation of dvipdfm (as well, of course, as the package Readme.

The authors are Jin-Hwan Cho, Matthias Franz, Shunsaku Hirata, Mark A. Wicks, Karl Berry, Peter Breitenlohner and Khaled Hosny. The package is Copyright © 2002-2010 Jin-Hwan Cho and Shunsaku Hirata.