[XeTeX] XeTeX 3.1415926-2.5-0.9999.2 ps bugs

Daniel Greenhoe dgreenhoe at gmail.com
Thu Mar 28 03:05:01 CET 2013


I have switched back to this one:
  "This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-0.9999.0 (TeX Live 2012/W32TeX)"
...and the problems I mentioned previously seem to go away.

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Daniel Greenhoe <dgreenhoe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just a heads up note...
>
> I run XeTeX on a Windows 7 platform. I downloaded the 2013-03-27
> version of xetex-w32.tar.xz from a w32tex.org mirror and installed the
> new binaries on my system, including this one:
>   "This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-0.9999.2 (TeX Live 2012/W32TeX)"
>  I tried compiling a 300+ page book. The result seems to contain
> several ps-tricks related errors. A pdf extract from the book is
> included. Errors include the following:
>
>   1. The text that should occur in a rotated box on the second page is
> not visible.
>   2. The box that occurs on the second page somehow also shows up on
> some subsequent pages
>   3. Some pdf figures in a table on the ninth page have, except for
> some text, have disappeared.
>
> I don't want to give anyone too much pressure. I appreciate the hard
> work that others have already completed. I am OK using a previous
> version of XeTeX. I don't have a minimal example at this point. Maybe
> just treat this email as a "heads up" for possible future bug reports
> from others.
>
> Dan


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