> On Feb 19, 2016, at 5:46 PM, Paulo Ney de Souza <paulo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If you take a simple latex file like: > \documentclass{article} > \usepackage{lipsum} > \usepackage{amsgen} > \begin{document} > \lipsum[1-10] > \end{document} > and run latex, pdflatex or lualatex repated times (on the same file) you get > the SAME dvi or pdf file up to an internal DATE and ID in the file -- and > everything else is the same. > > No so with "xelatex" where different runs on the same file produces PDF files > of different sizes and whose internals differ by quite a bit. To see the > differences you can use "vimdiff file1.pdf file2.pdf". > > Why is it so? And what generates this difference? The question has been > lingering on SX for a while > (http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/292675/why-does-xelatex-produce-different-files-from-the-same-deterministic-sources) > but with no reasonable answer! > > Paulo Ney de Souza > paulo...@gmail.com
Howdy, Hmmm... I typeset your test file with xelatex multiple times using XeTeX 3.14159265-2.6-0.99992 (TeX Live 2015) kpathsea version 6.2.1 and I always got 10,720 bytes. Good Luck, Herb Schulz (herbs at wideopenwest dot com) -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex