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

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Thu Aug 3 22:27:33 CEST 2017


Dou you have the same problem with the ean13isbn package? It makes use of
\vrule and fonts only, no postscript, no special tricks.


Zdeněk Wagner
http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz

2017-08-03 21:04 GMT+02:00 Paulo Ney de Souza <pauloney at gmail.com>:

> 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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