Bug#222682: tetex-bin: dvipdfm makes big delimiters disappear in this document

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 02.12.03 Chung-chieh Shan (ken@digitas.harvard.edu) wrote:

Hi,

> At http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~ccshan/debbugs/dvipdfm/ are a
> single-page DVI file and the PDF file produced from it by dvipdfm.  The
> \bigl and \bigr delimiters in equation (30) mysteriously disappears in
> the PDF output.
> 
Remark:

\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\renewcommand\normalsize{\fontsize{9pt}{10.5pt}\selectfont}
\begin{document}
Big delimiters: $\bigl[ \bigr]$ End of test.
\end{document}

Works fine in Debian stable with backported dvipdfm from unstable.
Tested with xpdf and acroread.

drachi:[hille] >dvipdfm -v a.dvi

a.dvi -> a.pdf
DVI Comment:  TeX output 2003.12.10:0915
[1<cmr9@8.97pt(TFM:cmr9)(ENC:ot1r)><cmex9@8.97pt(TFM:cmex9)>](PFB:cmr9)(/var/spool/texmf/pk/ljfour/public/cm/cmex9.600pk)

Compression eliminated approximately 1018 bytes
10273 bytes written

H. 
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