[dvipdfmx] Intermittent xdvipdfmx failure

Philip Taylor P.Taylor at Hellenic-Institute.Uk
Sun Jan 24 17:52:01 CET 2021


Philip Taylor wrote:

> 10 iterations, failed at 10th (failed in the sense of generating 
> 393021 bytes as opposed to generating 393023 bytes as per normal). 
> Iterations 9 & 10 PDFs attached.

CMD file to replicate :

> @echo off
>
> xetex -no-pdf test.tex
>
> FOR /L %%n in (1,1,32767) do xdvipdfmx -z 0 test.xdv -o test-%%n.pdf & 
> FOR %%m in (test-%%n.pdf) do echo %%m: %%~zm bytes & IF NOT "%%~zm" == 
> "393023" PAUSE
>

The fact that this occurs so infrequently leads me to suspect an 
uninitialised variable ...


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