[XeTeX] Possible psclip incompatibility in TeXLive-2013?

Lammert, Richard richard.lammert at ctsfw.edu
Fri Aug 23 04:17:58 CEST 2013


PS: Just after sending the message, I looked at the PDFs again. The text
appears to be in the 2013 PDF, simply not visible. I can cut and paste from
the PDF and see the invisible text.

Richard


On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 10:15 PM, Lammert, Richard <
richard.lammert at ctsfw.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The following minimal example used to work (back through TeXLive-2009),
> but currently doesn't. In the current TeXLive-2013, the entire rest of the
> page is "swallowed" following the psclip statement:
>
> \documentclass{memoir}
> \usepackage[no-math]{fontspec}
> \usepackage{pstricks}
> \usepackage{lipsum}
> \usepackage{wrapfig}
>
> \listfiles
>
> \begin{document}
> \emph{Reading the tables}: the letter(s) on the left give(s) the
> \emph{first} part of the
> \begin{wrapfigure}[18]{l}{0.5\textwidth}
>   \begin{pspicture}(0,0)(5.5,6.8)
>      \begin{psclip}
>
> {\psline(0,0)(0.5,0.5)(1.0,0)(1.5,0.5)(2.0,0)(2.5,0.5)(3.0,0)(3.5,0.5)(4.0,0)(4.5,0.5)(5,0)(5.5,0.5)(5.5,6.8)(0,6.8)(0,0)}%
>      \end{psclip}
>   \end{pspicture}
> \end{wrapfigure}
> \lipsum[1-5]
>
> \end{document}
>
> *** end of example
>
> Attached are PDFs produced by TeXLive-2012 and TeXLive-2013. The problem
> does not appear to be in the memoir class, since the same thing happens
> with "book" and "article." Commenting out the psclip environment produces
> the page normally. wrapfig is 2003/01/31 (v 3.6) in both cases. The
> problem, then, seems to me to be somewhere between xetex, fontspec, and
> pstricks. The versions of these files are as follows:
> TeXLive-2012:
>   XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-0.9998 (TeX Live 2012)
>   fontspec.sty    2013/03/16 v2.3a
>   pstricks.sty    2013/04/05 v0.54
>   pstricks.tex    2013/04/05 v2.40
> TeXLive-2013:
>   XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-0.9999.3 (TeX Live 2013)
>   fontspec.sty    2013/05/20 v2.3c
>   pstricks.sty    2013/05/22 v0.57
>   pstricks.tex    2013/07/09 v2.45
> (Full file lists are attached if I have narrowed the field of suspects
> incorrectly.)
>
> Environment: Mac OS X 10.7.5 running on an iMac 2011.
>
> Any idea on what is causing the problem, and how to solve it?
>
> Thanks!
> Richard Lammert
>
> --
>
> Rev. Richard A. Lammert           e-mail: richard.lammert at ctsfw.edu
> Technical Services Librarian       mail: 6600 N. Clinton St.
> Systems Librarian                     Fort Wayne, IN 46825-4916
> Walther Library                         phone: 260-452-3148
> Concordia Theological Seminary
>



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Rev. Richard A. Lammert           e-mail: richard.lammert at ctsfw.edu
Technical Services Librarian       mail: 6600 N. Clinton St.
Systems Librarian                     Fort Wayne, IN 46825-4916
Walther Library                         phone: 260-452-3148
Concordia Theological Seminary
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