[tex-live] Re: bug in the latest TeX Live snapshot.

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have compiled and installed on a couple of research workstations (i386 
> and x86_64 archs) the latest (as of 5th October sources) TeX Live but, 
> unfortunately, I cannot switch my production environment to it because the 
> resulting PDF files which pdflatex generates do not look the same.
> 
> Please have a look at these two files:
> 
> http://www.bibles.org.uk/bugs
> 
> The file old.pdf was generated with pdfeTeX-1.11a and the file new.pdf was 
> generated with pdfeTeX-1.20a. Now, if you look carefully the problem is 
> apparent even on the first page. The first few words (Hebrew is right to 
> left, remember :) are missing, but the last one is correct and is in the 
> right place. Looking at the next few pages you will discover the same 
> problem. Sometimes it occurs even in the base text rather than in the 
> footnotes (as was the case on the first page). I used xpdf and gpdf to 
> view the files.

Can you compare the DVI outputs from the two versions? Can you 
also try non-pdf e-TeX?

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Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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