Bug#796120: texlive-xetex: fails to create document that worked previously: xdvipdfmx:fatal: Parsing charstring failed: (status=-1, stack=0)
On 20/08/15 at 11:23 +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> 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.
Right. I also noticed that if you take the clean source, build it with
jessie's xelatex, and then build it with stretch's, it works.
Lucas
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