[tex-live] Bug#483019: texlive-xetex: xelatex fails to display included PDF graphics

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Jonathan,

after including the patch2 into the Debian packages we got a bug report
which says that with the changes an included pdf file stopped being
shown.

To exclude any possible problems with the patching of xetex for poppler
we did in Debian I also tried the binary of xetex as currently in the
TeX Live subversion repository with the same result.

Jonathan, do you have any idea what could have happened?

A really minimal tex file is in the forwarded message below and the
location of the to be included pdf file is at the end of the message
below.

Thanks a lot and all the best

Norbert


On Mo, 26 Mai 2008, Michael Ritzert wrote:
> Package: texlive-xetex
> Version: 2007.dfsg.1-3+b1
> Severity: important
> 
> When I try to include PDF graphics generated by OOo in my document
> processed by xelatex, I get an output file where the space for the
> graphic is reserved, but the graphic itself is not shown.
> 
> In this example, I get an empty rectangle of the correct size when
> processing it with xelatex 2007.dfsg.1-3+b1. With 2007.dfst.1-2, the
> included file is shown inside the rectangle.
> 
> I ONLY see this bahaviour when the PDF graphic has been generated by
> OpenOffice.org. PDF graphics generated by epstopdf are correctly
> displays in the output document.
> 
> (Note: I sometimes see messages stating that the included file generated
> by OOo "had errors that were repaired or ignored." This message does not
> show up with the minmal PDF I'm using to reproduce the behaviour.)
> 
> 
> ##################################
> minimal input file
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> 
> \usepackage{graphics}
> 
> \begin{document}
> \framebox{\includegraphics{test.pdf}}
> \{document}
> 
> 
> Run xelatex x.tex.
> 
> 
> ##################################
> other files
> 
> Any PDF generated by OpenOffice.org (oodraw) as test.pdf.
> See http://sussrv01.ti.uni-mannheim.de/~ritzert/test.pdf if you don't
> succeed in creating a file that fails to display.

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