Re: Issues with and after upgrade to texlive
Hi Frans!
On Mit, 18 Apr 2007, Frans Pop wrote:
> 1. Disappearing top margin
> If I build in an i386 sid chroot the top margin in PDF disappears, while
> if I build on an amd64 sid system they are fine. Compare:
> - http://people.debian.org/~fjp/d-i_manual/install.en_i386.pdf
> - http://people.debian.org/~fjp/d-i_manual/install.en_amd64.pdf
The configuration seems to be different:
pdfinfo gives
Page size: 612 x 792 pts (letter) for i386
and
Page size: 595 x 842 pts (A4) for amd64
> Compare:
> - http://people.debian.org/~fjp/d-i_manual/ru.pdf_etch.log
> - http://people.debian.org/~fjp/d-i_manual/ru.pdf_sid.log
Since dvipdf does nothing else then
dvips -Ppdf -q -f "$infile" |
the difference must be again in the configuration of dvips. I guess the
problem is related to the fonts
lasxNNNN and laitNNNN
I have NO idea where they are coming from. Can you search your computer
with dlocate/locate and tell me where they are?
> As you can see the 'dvipdf' step now takes 8 _minutes_ instead of
> 20 _seconds_, and the 8 minutes is on a system that is a lot faster!
> The resulting PDF files are the same in both cases AFAICT.
This is probably due to the generation of pixmap fonts, or some other
font generation.
Can you run:
dvips -Ppdf "$infile"
and send me the output (of stdout and stderr?)
Does it *always* take so long time?
> - a lot of "page may be too complex to print" warnings
Probably a consequence that pixmap fonts are included and not outline
fonts, which makes the sizes much much much bigger, and so more complex.
> - "Checksum mismatch" warnings for fonts that AFAICT are not even
> installed (nor available in Debian)
See above ...
> - the "no %%Page comments generated" which I don't understand at all
No idea.
> BTW, if you know of an alternative method to generate PDF files from
> docbook-xml than we use now (xml->tex->dvi->pdf), I'd be very much
Depending on the contents, but you could try
pdflatex
simply.
One last thing, please always send logs with unfiltered output, ie no -q
for dvips etc, it helps us debugging the problems.
Ah, one more thing, can I get the sources of these documents trivially,
with all the necessary stuff, so that I can test it myself?
Best wishes
Norbert
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Debian Developer <preining@debian.org> Debian TeX Group
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