xetex/xdvipdfmx produce invalid PDFs → update

[Paul Natsuo Kishimoto]

Hi,

I ran into an issue similar to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=907784. I have a large document (a Beamer presentation with more than 100 frames) that I compile using XeLaTeX/latexmk.

The document compiles without issue, producing a valid PDF. However, if I add only:

\begin{frame}{Frame title}
\end{frame}

at a certain point, the result is a PDF file that is malformed (according to evince, pdfinfo, etc.)

Finding the above Debian bug report, I downloaded texlive-binaries_2018.20181218.49446-1_amd64.deb (from debian testing), and extracted only the xdvipdfmx executable into ~/.local/bin. With this executable, my modified file also compiles without error.

I suppose the fix is to update the version of texlive-binaries, or at least xdvipdfmx, in 18.10.

$ lsb_release -rd && apt-cache policy texlive-binaries
Description: Ubuntu 18.10
Release: 18.10
texlive-binaries:
  Installed: 2018.20180824.48463-1ubuntu0.1
  Candidate: 2018.20180824.48463-1ubuntu0.1
  Version table:
 *** 2018.20180824.48463-1ubuntu0.1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2018.20180824.48463-1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic/main amd64 Packages

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: texlive-binaries 2018.20180824.48463-1ubuntu0.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-17.18-generic 4.18.20
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13.3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Apr 9 15:16:09 2019
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-11 (544 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
SourcePackage: texlive-bin
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to cosmic on 2018-11-11 (148 days ago)