Bug#796120: texlive-xetex: fails to create document that worked previously: xdvipdfmx:fatal: Parsing charstring failed: (status=-1, stack=0)

[Atsuhito Kohda <atsuhito_k@tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

Hi Lucas,

On Wed, 19 Aug 2015 17:54:26 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:

> The attached document fails to build in sid or stretch, while it worked
> perfectly fine in jessie. FTR, this is the german version of
> developers-reference, causing #792009.
> 
> ------------>8
> $ xelatex index.dbk.tex > /dev/null
> 
> xdvipdfmx:fatal: Parsing charstring failed: (status=-1, stack=0)
> 
> Output file removed.
> ------------>8

FYI.  It seems if one runs "xelatex --no-pdf index.dbk.tex" first
then "xelatex index.dbk.tex" works and generate pdf files successfully.

Some auxiliary file(s) might be problematic.

Best regards,  	       	     	2015-8-20(Thu)

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