[XeTeX] Inconsistent rendering across different computers

[George N. White III]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Brian Aydemir<brian.aydemir at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 16:15, Jonathan Kew <jfkthame at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 21 Jul 2009, at 20:58, Brian Aydemir wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 13:30, George N. White III <gnwiii at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Vafa Khalighi<vafa at users.berlios.de>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Also see
>>> > http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/tex-live/2008-November/019016.html and
>>> > http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/tex-live/2008-November/019017.html
>>>
>>> Have you tried TL2009?  Unicode-math has been working for me with Asana
>>> in Ubuntu-9.04 (64-bit).  If the 64-bit binaries have prpblems, you can
>>> probably use i386-linux xetex binaries in 64bit linux:
>>>
>>> 1) extract xetex.i386-linux.tar.xz to a scratch directory
>>> 2) mv bin/i386-linux to <texlive>/bin
>>> 3) PATH="<texlive>/bin/i386-linux:$PATH"
>>>
>>> This seems to work (you may need the 32-bit compatibility libs), but I
>>> only tested a couple files.
>>>
>>> Assuming that I installed things correctly, the current TL2009 pretest
>>> doesn't resolve the issue in my case.  It doesn't seem to matter whether I
>>> use i386-linux or x86_64-linux.
>>
>> Oh, so it's not a 64-bit issue? That was my initial impression.
>>
>> Is it a case of getting the wrong glyphs, or the right glyphs but they
>> don't look good? If the latter, have you tried different PDF viewers?
>
> I'm not sure what the issue is.  64-bit versus 32-bit was someone's guess,
> which I tried to test using the current TL2009 pretest.
> I'm attaching a generated PDF for the minimal document I posted earlier.  It
> renders the same in xpdf (Linux) and Preview (Mac OS X).  Perhaps the more
> technical description of what's wrong is that it looks like the wrong glyphs
> are being chosen, at the least.
> --Brian

I compiled your file on Ubuntu 9.04 x86_64 using TL2009-pre and it looks
fine.  Using MacOSX "Preview.app" your "main.pdf" I see a superscript "r"
for "Th" and "A" with \tilde for the oldstyle "1".

I also compiled on MacOSX using TL2009-pre.
Your "main.pdf" (which I call  "brian.aydemir.main.pdf") was created
with an older version of dvipdfmx:

for f in brian.aydemir.main.pdf brian.aydemir.pdf ; do pdfinfo $f ; done
Creator:         XeTeX output 2009.07.21:1708
Producer:       xdvipdfmx (0.7.3)
CreationDate:   Tue Jul 21 17:08:05 2009
Tagged:         no
Pages:          1
Encrypted:      no
Page size:      612 x 792 pts (letter)
File size:      14716 bytes
Optimized:      no
PDF version:    1.4
Creator:         XeTeX output 2009.07.22:0729
Producer:       xdvipdfmx (0.7.5)
CreationDate:   Wed Jul 22 07:29:37 2009
Tagged:         no
Pages:          1
Encrypted:      no
Page size:      612 x 792 pts (letter)
File size:      14762 bytes
Optimized:      no
PDF version:    1.4


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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia