When pdflatex is run even on a very small LaTeX file (just a few lines), it produces a huge PDF file of ~ 250 M but full of 0. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. pdflatex tmp.tex 2. 3. Actual Results: See PDF attached. Expected Results: A PDF file of size a few K. This is a PPC machine with the latest version of texlive. The problem does not occur on some other platforms but with different versions of texlive. Portage 2.1.10.4 (default/linux/powerpc/ppc32/10.0, gcc-4.5.2, glibc-2.12.2-r0, 2.6.39-gentoo-r1 ppc) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.39-gentoo-r1-ppc-7447A,_altivec_supported-with-gentoo-2.0.2 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.1-r1, 3.1.3-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.4-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.8.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5, 4.5.2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 sys-devel/make: 3.81-r2 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.36.1 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.12.2 Repositories: gentoo ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc ~ppc" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=powerpc -mtune=powerpc -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=powerpc -mtune=powerpc -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="fr en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://gullfoss/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl alsa apache2 berkdb bzip2 cdparanoia chm cli cracklib crypt cxx dbus djvu dri dvd dvdread emacs encode exif flac fortran gdbm gif gpm htmlhandbook iconv java jpeg jpeg2k kde matroska mjpeg mng modules mp3 mp4 mudflap musepack mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl php png ppc pppd python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline session ssl subtitles svg sysfs tcpd theora tiff truetype unicode vnc vorbis webkit wifi xorg xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="aoa aoa-fabric-layout aoa-onyx aoa-soundbus aoa-soundbus-i2s aoa-tas aoa-toonie powermac usb-audio via82xx" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="braindump flow karbon kexi kpresenter krita tables words" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="fr en" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Created attachment 281151 [details] LaTeX file
Created attachment 281159 [details] Compressed PDF file The PDF file is huge but it is very well compressed since it is full of 0 ...
This bug might be related to bug #372767 since it occurs on the same machine after the problem of installing texlive-basic has been solved. Using latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf produces a right PDF file.
Please post "equery b /usr/bin/pdftex" output
I tried your tex file and what I got was a 17kb file. (machine fully updated(~x86)). This is weird. Please, also paste the output of this oneliner: for file in $(ldd /usr/bin/pdflatex | awk '{print $3}'); do qfile -v "${file}"; done (just copy-paste in in your active shell)
(In reply to comment #4) > Please post "equery b /usr/bin/pdftex" output * Searching for /usr/bin/pdftex ... app-text/texlive-core-2010-r1 (/usr/bin/pdftex -> pdftex-texlive-core-2010) app-text/texlive-core-2010-r1 (/usr/bin/pdftex-texlive-core-2010)
(In reply to comment #5) > I tried your tex file and what I got was a 17kb file. (machine fully > updated(~x86)). This is weird. > > Please, also paste the output of this oneliner: > > for file in $(ldd /usr/bin/pdflatex | awk '{print $3}'); do qfile -v "${file}"; > done > > (just copy-paste in in your active shell) media-libs/libpng-1.4.7 (/usr/lib/libpng14.so.14) sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5-r2 (/lib/libz.so.1) app-text/poppler-0.16.7 (/usr/lib/libpoppler.so.13) dev-libs/kpathsea-6.0.1_p20110627 (/usr/lib/libkpathsea.so.6) sys-devel/gcc-4.5.2 (/usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu/4.5.2/libstdc++.so.6) sys-libs/glibc-2.12.2 (/lib/libm.so.6) sys-devel/gcc-4.5.2 (/usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu/4.5.2/libgcc_s.so.1) sys-libs/glibc-2.12.2 (/lib/libc.so.6) media-libs/freetype-2.4.5 (/usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6) media-libs/fontconfig-2.8.0-r1 (/usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1) media-libs/jpeg-8c (/usr/lib/libjpeg.so.8) media-libs/openjpeg-1.4-r1 (/usr/lib/libopenjpeg.so.1.4) media-libs/lcms-1.19 (/usr/lib/liblcms.so.1) app-arch/bzip2-1.0.6 (/lib/libbz2.so.1) dev-libs/expat-2.0.1-r3 (/usr/lib/libexpat.so.1)
Are you sure your machine is fully updated? Can you try a "emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps y --ask y texlive" and try to generate that pdf again?
I have updated to texlive-2011 that has just appeared in the tree yesterday and the problem has disappeared.
(In reply to comment #9) > I have updated to texlive-2011 that has just > appeared in the tree yesterday and the problem > has disappeared. should be fixed by texlive-core-2010-r4 afaik too -> fixed
