[XeTeX] Unicode Math and Evince 3.4.0 (poppler 0.18.4) problems

[Chris Yocum]

Just to update everyone.  The newest Evince 3.6.0 with poppler/cairo
(0.20.4) still exhibits this problem.

Chris

On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 06:29:16PM +0100, Chris Yocum wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The only reason that I caught this is that I tend to run evince from
> the command-line and I can see the output in the terminal.  This is
> what alerted me to investigate evince/poppler as the problem.
> 
> Chris
> 
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 05:31:13PM +0200, Tobias Schoel wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > that seems to be exactly the bug, that I have noticed earlier and
> > posted on this list under the Subject "Printer doesn't print
> > formulas".
> > 
> > I have tried with several other printers and different fonts, but
> > the result was always the same. It didn't occur to me, that evince
> > could be the root.
> > 
> > I have tested the document (minus the biblatex parts) by printing it
> > from evince and acroread and I can confirm: evince doesn't print it,
> > acroread does.
> > What happens with other documents: evince prints until the first
> > math formula and then stops.
> > 
> > A workaround is for me to pdf2ps and ps2pdf the document. After
> > that, evince does print correctly.
> > 
> > bye
> > 
> > Toscho
> > 
> > On 12.10.2012 15:08, Chris Yocum wrote:
> > >Hi Guys,
> > >
> > >I just wanted to let everyone know that if you use evince 3.4.0 with
> > >poppler 0.18.4 and the unicode math package (default settings) that
> > >you will not be able to print because of poppler bug
> > >(https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53925).  I have attached
> > >a minimal example to this email but you will not see the problems with
> > >evince until you try to print as it displays correctly but refuses to
> > >print with the error "Internal Error: cairo context error: input
> > >string not valid UTF-8".  You can find out before hand if you click
> > >print then in the print dialog box when you hit print preview, you
> > >will that the page with the math on it is blank.
> > >
> > >I am not sure if this has been fixed but in next version of ubuntu
> > >(which is due in a few days time).
> > >
> > >All the best,
> > >Chris
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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