Bug#501147: /usr/bin/pdftex: pdftex: Incorrect pdf produced from a single correct pdf file
Package: texlive-base-bin
Version: 2007.dfsg.2-3
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/pdftex
I have a problem using pdftex to deal with a specific pdf file,
http://perso.univ-rennes1.fr/denis.delgay-troise/RMI/Tds/RMItd24.pdf.
Consider the following RMI24-tex.tex file.
##################################
\pdfximage{RMItd24.pdf}
\pdfrefximage\the\pdflastximage
\bye
##################################
Typing "pdftex RMI24-tex.tex" produces a one-page PDF with an almost
entirely blank page, only a page number is displayed at the footer. That
PDF file is attached.
Someone else tried the very same command on his computer, with the
pdftex version 'pdfTeX 3.141592-1.40.3-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.6)', and he got a
correct PDF (although he was also seeing a blank page with my PDF)!
What's going on here?
/Context/ - I am trying to join several PDF files using LaTeX and the
pdfpages package, more specifically the pdfinclude command. The "someone
else" here above is Andreas Matthias (from pdfpages package) who
suggested me to try this pdftex file. I must say I don't know TeX, so
I'm not really sure of what I'm doing here ;-) . But I know for sure
that the same tex file on two different systems should not produce two
different PDFs!
/System/ - I am running Debian Lenny (testing), up-to-date as of today.
This is not the latest pdftex version, but I am not sure how to deal
with a version of pdftex which would not be included in the Debian
packaging (and I don't want to break my system!). Looking at
http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/NEWS, it does not seem that a
more recent version would solve that problem. And anyway, Mathias was
apparently using the same version (except for the "-2.2" behind, what's
this?) and does not have the problem, so I would say there is some
problem specific to the distribution rather than a problem in pdftex
itself...
/Log file/ - Here is the RMI24-tex.log file. I don't know if the
overfull vbox warning is important here?
##################################
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) (format=pdftex
2008.10.3) 3 OCT 2008 09:20
entering extended mode
%&-line parsing enabled.
**RMI24-tex.tex
(./RMI24-tex.tex
Overfull vbox (211.95496pt too high) has occurred while output is
active
vbox(643.20255+0.0)x597.23125
pdfrefximage(845.1575+0.0)x597.23125
glue(topskip) 10.0
hbox(0.0+0.0)x469.75499
glue 0.0 plus 1.0fill
[1{/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map} <./RMItd24.pdf>]
)</usr/s
hare/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr10.pfb>
Output written on RMI24-tex.pdf (1 page, 11692 bytes).
PDF statistics:
22 PDF objects out of 1000 (max. 8388607)
0 named destinations out of 1000 (max. 131072)
6 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 10000 (max. 10000000)
##################################
Thank you for any help.
Olivier
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List of ls-R files
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 991 oct 4 06:26 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 31078 sep 22 17:59 /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 sep 22 18:11 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 oct 3 08:57 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 oct 3 08:57 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE
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Config files
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21917 jun 30 2004 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5299 oct 3 08:59 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10318 oct 3 08:59 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9340 oct 3 08:59 /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
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Files in /etc/texmf/web2c/
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 283 nov 23 2007 mktex.cnf
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md5sums of texmf.d
42c20d7e8bd343542772b5a145bf8ad8 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf
5f7f6652cc8b8071c9e4ea6ba9e9f0a1 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/15Plain.cnf
f68e5add6afd6585b982f2f78e2e6a92 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/45TeXinputs.cnf
ea33127256c6a9f37145ae5b16fdb80c /etc/texmf/texmf.d/55Fonts.cnf
afccf1d3f87057411166a77c58e00bd1 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/65BibTeX.cnf
9da7c1c7b1eaf06f941af91f48a23068 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/75DviPS.cnf
7ae52efac46feb97010986e57877d12e /etc/texmf/texmf.d/80DVIPDFMx.cnf
37329819f1109e8a457e64b8b58fecdb /etc/texmf/texmf.d/85Misc.cnf
a8952d594677235951d447665ec46e9c /etc/texmf/texmf.d/90TeXDoc.cnf
30f4f13357c2761ed01a6a15f28725a5 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf
06abfa1c58f69e5d8054c12b03f2d36c /etc/texmf/texmf.d/96JadeTeX.cnf
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages texlive-base-bin depends on:
ii ed 0.7-2 The classic unix line editor
ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.1-9 GCC support library
ii libkpathsea4 2007.dfsg.2-3 TeX Live: path search library for
ii libncurses5 5.6+20080830-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpng12-0 1.2.27-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libpoppler3 0.8.7-1 PDF rendering library
ii libstdc++6 4.3.1-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.1.5-1 X11 client-side library
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.4-2 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxmu6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.7-1 X11 pixmap library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii mime-support 3.44-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii perl 5.10.0-14 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii texlive-common 2007.dfsg.1-4 TeX Live: Base component
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages texlive-base-bin recommends:
ii perl-tk 1:804.028-1+b1 Perl module providing the Tk graph
ii texlive-base-bin-doc 2007.dfsg.2-3 TeX Live: Documentation files for
Versions of packages texlive-base-bin suggests:
ii ghostscript [postscript- 8.62.dfsg.1-3.1 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii kghostview [postscript-v 4:3.5.9-3 PostScript viewer for KDE
ii kpdf [pdf-viewer] 4:3.5.9-3 PDF viewer for KDE
ii xpdf-utils [pdf-viewer] 3.02-1.4 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii debconf 1.5.22 Debian configuration management sy
ii ucf 3.0010 Update Configuration File: preserv
Versions of packages texlive-base-bin is related to:
pn tetex-base <none> (no description available)
pn tetex-bin <none> (no description available)
pn tetex-extra <none> (no description available)
ii tex-common 1.11.2 common infrastructure for building
-- debconf information:
tex-common/check_texmf_wrong:
tex-common/check_texmf_missing:
tex-common/singleuser: false
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