[pdftex] \pdfendlink ended up in different nesting level than \pdfstartlink

[Aleks Kleyn]

Thank you for response. I do not think this is problem with babel because I write the same text in English and Russian. Sometimes I see such error in English version. But it is hard to catch. Long time I suspected macro. When I used macro trace, I saw that pdfstart and pdfend appear on the same level. Once when I had such error in English text, I used dvips (like I did long time ago) and compilation was good. This is why I think the problem is not in macro, but in the procedure of compilation. I found today that following bat file works
latex -output-directory=Out 2207.06506.Russian.tex
dvipdfm -o Out\2207.06506.Russian.pdf Out\2207.06506.Russian.dvi
I got compiled text. But links in this file does not work. Earlier I tried bat file
latex -output-directory=Out 2207.06506.Russian.tex
dvips -o Out\2207.06506.Russian.ps Out\2207.06506.Russian.dvi
ps2pdf Out\2207.06506.Russian.ps
but when I use Russian text, dvips reports that it cannot find probably font. And today for some reason ps2pdf did not create pdf file even for English version.

Also I tried at summer reduce number of files. I removed a lot of files and had only few including file where I had error. Suddenly error disappeared and even when I returned all files back I did not the error. This is why I decided to submit the whole package.

Aleks Kleyn


-----Original Message-----
From: Ross Moore [mailto:ross.moore at mq.edu.au] 
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2022 7:11 PM
To: Karl Berry
Cc: Aleks_Kleyn at mailaps.org; pdftex at tug.org
Subject: Re: [pdftex] \pdfendlink ended up in different nesting level than \pdfstartlink

Hi Karl, Alex’s.

It is interesting that you get it as a fatal error. I only get a warning, and there is nothing broken in the PDF.

My pdfTeX is from TeXLive 2021.

I have suspicions about which is the faulty link, but could not confirm these, due to the input encoding. Editing in the file: Left.Eugene.Russian.tex   corrupted the file’s encoding. I’ll need to extract it afresh from the archive.

Primary suspect is the hyperlink in the footnote near the beginning of that chapter.

Other possibilities are ones that occur just on a page-break, or column-break. 

Best of luck in chasing this one.

Hope this helps.

Ross

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> On 25 Oct 2022, at 8:17 am, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Aleks - thanks for the report.
> 
>    \pdfendlink ended up in different nesting level than \pdfstartlink
> 
> I get the same fatal error with your source file, on the second run, on
> page 276. (After making the many fonts needed.)
> 
> Unfortunately this is not something that can be fixed at the pdftex
> level. pdftex is just reporting what it's seeing in terms of low-level
> PDF output. It is the LaTeX macros that need to avoid the issue. And as
> I recall, that is not even possible in all cases.
> 
> You can report it at https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Flatex3%2Flatex2e%2Fissues&data=05%7C01%7Cross.moore%40mq.edu.au%7Cb835786ca79f4e5ce14408dab6052b6a%7C82c514c1a7174087be06d40d2070ad52%7C0%7C0%7C638022430579899924%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=7w90Ps8vKakYBSDJgH71vTwHFp2SRIbhVwT0x8nb6nQ%3D&reserved=0, but your
> document is very complicated. They may not be able to debug the
> problem. If there is any way you can cut it down to something smaller
> that still has the problem, that would surely help.
> 
>    And I cannot use dvips with this code because there is problem with
>    package babel.
> 
> I don't understand how babel plays into this. But if you're seeing a bug
> in babel, please report it at https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Flatex3%2Fbabel%2Fissues&data=05%7C01%7Cross.moore%40mq.edu.au%7Cb835786ca79f4e5ce14408dab6052b6a%7C82c514c1a7174087be06d40d2070ad52%7C0%7C0%7C638022430579899924%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=5PvuuGtHEiin8HoicpPasntzg8XkIsl%2FKwHh9MLUUUA%3D&reserved=0.
> 
> FWIW, when I run latex+latex+dvips+ps2pdf, I get a 295 page pdf in
> Russian that looks ok. Not that I know Russian or have any idea what I'm
> looking at :). 
> 
> I tried running dvipdfmx, but your .dvi has many PostScript specials, so
> that doesn't work. I don't know where they came from. But maybe if you
> tell whatever graphics/other package that you're using dvipdfmx, you
> could get a pdf out that way. --best wishes, karl.
>