On 2017-08-27, mn wrote: > On 27.08.17 22:41, Guenter Milde wrote: >>>> The UserGuide currently is a real trouble maker.
>> Can you have a look at the used fonts in this document? ... > I experimented with the fonts. LatinModern (the default) gives the same > result as using Libertine or even XeTeX fonts. Fine, so we can rule out fonts as the reason. ... >>> I can confirm strange behavior on macOS 10.12.5 with LyX 2.2.3. >>> 1. Launch LyX 2.2.3 >>> 2. Open User's Guide from Help Menu >>> 3. Render >>> - All pages will be white (no text shown). I do not see >>> beachballing, but the PDF is useless. >> Is there an error message or warning from LaTeX? ... > There are a few warnings but these will likeley not lead anywhere. > The PDF displays fine in Adobe Reader, is in vector and therefore the > bug just has to be in macOS itself. > The question is why it rears its ugly head in Apple's PDFKit? > What makes UserGuide so special? > People have called this document a "Preview-Killer". Joel sent a log file and I see a lot of warnings like: pdfTeX warning: pdflatex (file ./2_Applications_LyX_2_2_3_app_Contents_Resource s_images_buffer-write.pdf): PDF inclusion: multiple pdfs with page group included in a single page OTOH, these warnings are not present in the LaTeX log here on Debian. They seem to be triggered by the SVG icons like (in LyX source): \begin_inset Info type "icon" arg "buffer-new" \end_inset which use an *.svgz image converted to PDF. Maybe the converter called by LyX produces faulty/unsuited PDFs and once they are included, they trigger the problems in viewers that are not sufficiently "robust"? ... > Also note: the downloadable version of the PDF hosted on lyx.org > triggers the same symptoms. It may be generated on a Mac or with the same SVG-converter, too. I could send you a PDF copy of the UserGuide generated here without the above pdfTeX warnings. Günter
