[tex-live] possible bug or mistake ...

Paulo Ney de Souza pauloney at gmail.com
Fri Aug 4 02:19:26 CEST 2017


I have no problem with TL2017 and Ubuntu 16.04. What fonts does
pdffonts show?
voss at shania <http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-live>:~$ pdffonts test.pdf
name         type        encoding         emb sub uni object ID
------------ ----------- ---------------- --- --- --- ---------
Helvetica    Type 1      Standard         no  no  no       8  0
Courier      Type 1      Standard         no  no  no       9  0

Herbert

Herbet,

The results of my "pdffonts" are exactly the same:

$ pdffonts barcode.pdf
name           type              encoding         emb sub uni object ID
-------------- ----------------- ---------------- --- --- --- ---------
Helvetica      Type 1            Standard         no  no  no       8  0
Courier        Type 1            Standard         no  no  no       9  0

Did you run the two command I sent on the email?

*cp $(kpsewhich -var-value
**TEXMFSYSVAR)/fonts/conf/texlive-fontconfig.conf *>*
/etc/fonts/conf.d/09-texlive.conf
*

*fc-cache -fsv*It is only after you run them that you will see the problem.

Paulo Ney







On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 12:04 PM, Paulo Ney de Souza <pauloney at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have finally nailed a bug that I have been chasing for a while now ...
> in which some simple numbers on a PDF file disappears under Evince display
> on Linux after some routine TeXLive maintenance operations.
>
> We have seen it for a few years now, after long sequences of operations of
> instal/update/etc ... the Evince display would become messed up, and
> yesterday I was able to nail it to the commands to make TeX fonts available
> system-wide, recommended by Karl in Section 3.4.4 of the TL Reference
> Manual:
>
> cp $(kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFSYSVAR)/fonts/conf/texlive-fontconfig.conf
> /etc/fonts/conf.d/09-texlive.conf
> fc-cache -fsv
>
> Here are the displays of Evince and Xpdf, before and after the command is
> ran.
>
> Before:
>
> [image: Inline image 1]
> After:
>
>
> [image: Inline image 3]
> We use xelatex on the file below to generate the short PDF file:
>
> \documentclass{minimal}
> \RequirePackage{pst-barcode}
>
> \begin{document}
>     \psbarcode{978-85-8337-082-6}{includetext}{isbn}
> \end{document}
>
>
> This is On TL-2017 on Ubuntu 17.04.
>
> Paulo Ney de Souza
>
>
>
>
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