[pdftex] Re: Pdfetex with changebar patches

Adam Lins abman at sbcglobal.net
Wed Jul 13 15:21:04 CEST 2005


Olaf Dietrich wrote:

> Could you compare the results with a short LaTeX document on both
> systems? (If you set \pdfcompresslevel=0 you can generate a diff
> of both pdf files; a comparison of the .log, .aux, and .cb files
> might be useful as well.)

Found it!

On the iBook I get:

  1 0 0 1 0 792 cm
  q 6.5 G 20 w 5102.7 -1383.507 m 5102.7 -1825.846 l S Q
  1 0 0 1 176.968 -182.585 cm
  1 0 0 1 -176.968 -609.415 cm

And on the x86 FC4 system (which is probably using A4 paper, not US Letter):

  1 0 0 1 0 841.8898 cm
  q 0.65 G 2 w 510.27 -138.3507 m 510.27 -182.5846 l S Q
  1 0 0 1 176.9676 -182.5853 cm
  1 0 0 1 -176.9676 -659.3045 cm

Note that the iBook greyness, thickness, and (x,y) changebar coordinates are
all 10x higher than they should be. I manually set them to 10x smaller and
the PDF output was correct.

Does this mean that the iBook build has (for some reason) got the wrong
value for fixed_point_decimal? I'll take a closer look at the build system.

-Adam



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