Bug#483019: texlive-xetex: xelatex fails to display included PDF graphics

[Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew@sil.org>]

Hi Norbert,

Very strange. I notice that the report says this ONLY happens with  
PDFs generated by OO.org, not from other sources, but it's not clear  
to me what's special/different/tricky about the test file provided.

Between the two versions mentioned, 2007.dfsg.1-3+b1 (broken) and  
2007.dfst.1-2 (working), has there been any change to xdvipdfmx? I'm  
guessing this is more likely a driver failure than the xetex program  
itself, as the tex job is apparently running to completion and  
recognizing the size of the graphic.

Please try running the two versions of xelatex with the -no-pdf  
option, and then run the corresponding xdvipdfmx with the -vv (very  
verbose) option to see if any warnings or other diagnostics show up.

If this doesn't help pinpoint the point of failure, please send me  
the .xdv files produced by both 2007.dfsg.1-3+b1 and 2007.dfst.1-2  
for this file, running with -no-pdf.

Thanks,

JK


On 28 May 2008, at 4:09 pm, Norbert Preining wrote:

> Hi Jonathan,
>
> after including the patch2 into the Debian packages we got a bug  
> report
> which says that with the changes an included pdf file stopped being
> shown.
>
> To exclude any possible problems with the patching of xetex for  
> poppler
> we did in Debian I also tried the binary of xetex as currently in the
> TeX Live subversion repository with the same result.
>
> Jonathan, do you have any idea what could have happened?
>
> A really minimal tex file is in the forwarded message below and the
> location of the to be included pdf file is at the end of the message
> below.
>
> Thanks a lot and all the best
>
> Norbert
>
>
> On Mo, 26 Mai 2008, Michael Ritzert wrote:
> > Package: texlive-xetex
> > Version: 2007.dfsg.1-3+b1
> > Severity: important
> >
> > When I try to include PDF graphics generated by OOo in my document
> > processed by xelatex, I get an output file where the space for the
> > graphic is reserved, but the graphic itself is not shown.
> >
> > In this example, I get an empty rectangle of the correct size when
> > processing it with xelatex 2007.dfsg.1-3+b1. With 2007.dfst.1-2, the
> > included file is shown inside the rectangle.
> >
> > I ONLY see this bahaviour when the PDF graphic has been generated by
> > OpenOffice.org. PDF graphics generated by epstopdf are correctly
> > displays in the output document.
> >
> > (Note: I sometimes see messages stating that the included file  
> > generated
> > by OOo "had errors that were repaired or ignored." This message  
> > does not
> > show up with the minmal PDF I'm using to reproduce the behaviour.)
> >
> >
> > ##################################
> > minimal input file
> >
> > \documentclass{article}
> >
> > \usepackage{graphics}
> >
> > \begin{document}
> > \framebox{\includegraphics{test.pdf}}
> > \{document}
> >
> >
> > Run xelatex x.tex.
> >
> >
> > ##################################
> > other files
> >
> > Any PDF generated by OpenOffice.org (oodraw) as test.pdf.
> > See http://sussrv01.ti.uni-mannheim.de/~ritzert/test.pdf if you don't
> > succeed in creating a file that fails to display.
>
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> Debian Developer <preining@debian.org>                          
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