On 28.08.17 08:36, Guenter Milde wrote: > 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. > Oh. Since I saw them all the time and non-Apple-dependent viewers unaffected I thought of them as harmless.
> 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. > According to full PTEX.Banner on the downloaded PDF: "This is MiKTeX-pdfTeX 2.9.6300 (1.4018)" That looks like generated on Windows. > I could send you a PDF copy of the UserGuide generated here without the > above pdfTeX warnings. Please do, I'll cross-check on mine too. gretings Mike
