[tex-live] bug in dvipdfmx wrt diacritics?

[Zdenek Wagner]

2011/9/9 Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at>:
> On Fr, 09 Sep 2011, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>> With xdvipdfmx in TL 2010 as well as 2011 I get the same error and the
>> resulting PDF file is unreadable. I know that seac is used to create
>
> Really? I tried 2011 and evince *can* read the pdf file, but does not
> show the accented characters.
>
I tried in AR 9 on CentOS release 5.3 (Final), x86_64. I have also
tried Ghostscript but it crashes with this error message:
   **** Warning:  An error occurred while reading an XREF table.
   **** The file has been damaged.  This may have been caused
   **** by a problem while converting or transfering the file.
   **** Ghostscript will attempt to recover the data.
ERROR: /undefined in /BXlevel
Operand stack:
   5   0   1   --dict:6/6(ro)(G)--   obj
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1   3
 %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3
%oparray_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
 false   1   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   %loop_continue
--nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1120/1686(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:108/200(L)--
 --dict:104/127(ro)(G)--   --dict:241/347(ro)(G)--   --dict:18/24(L)--

It seems that the PDF file written by xdvipdfmx is really damaged and
some viewers may be able to recover at least partially.

>> The font works fine in pdflatex.
>
> Ye, that I also tried, without problem.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Norbert
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