[XeTeX] [tex-live] Seemingly inexplicable shift in page origin between TL 2014 and TL 2016

[Ross Moore]

Hi Phil,

On Jul 15, 2016, at 6:02 AM, Philip Taylor <P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk<mailto:P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk>> wrote:

Very happy to believe that, Ross (and will test later) but what I do not understand is why things have changed so dramatically in going from TeX Live 2014 to 2016.  In 2014, adding the PDF/X-1A specials made no difference whatsoever to the position of size of the page; in 2016, they cause a vertical displacement.

There have been significant changes, at least in  xdvipdfmx  since 2014.

And the interaction with the color package is also inexplicable.  Anyhow, I first have to come up with a truly MWE and then I will be in a better position to investigate and report back.

Please send me such MWE when you have it.

I’ve been trying a real-world example (Serbian version of TeXLive documentation)
that compiles fine (with one small hiccup that doesn’t seem to affect the result)
using 2016’s  xdvipdfmx , but which crashes out almost immediately with 2014 saying:

SCI:TL-SR16 ross$ /usr/local/texlive/2014/bin/universal-darwin/xdvipdfmx -z 0 -vv --kpathsea-debug 4095 texlive-sr.xdv
<FONTMAP:/usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map><FONTMAP:/usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvipdfmx/updmap/kanjix.map><FONTMAP:/usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvipdfmx/ckx.map>texlive-sr.xdv -> texlive-sr.pdf
kdebug:fopen(texlive-sr.xdv, rb) => 0xa0e103ec
DVI ID = 7

xdvipdfmx:fatal: Something is wrong. Are you sure this is a DVI file?

Output file removed.
SCI:TL-SR16 ross$

Note that I have maximum verbosity turned on, as well as a lot of  kpathsea  tracing.
Yet still it isn’t clear where it is going wrong.

So I’d appreciate your cut-down MWE to test with both versions.
Then we can play with /MediaBox and /CropBox values, to see whether that
is the cause of what you are getting. Or whether it is something else.



** Phil.

Cheers

Ross


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