Re: [pretest] regression in pdftex

Am Sun, 15 Feb 2026 15:00:18 -0700 schrieb Karl Berry:

> Hi Christian (and Thanh and all),
> 
>     Here's the log and the (uncompressed) PDF.
> 
> Thanks for the report.
> 
> For engine reports, FYI, it's always easier if a plain (or, even better
> ini) TeX example can be constructed, to take LaTeX or other macros out
> of the loop.
> 
> In this case, happily (sort of), a minimal hello,world document also
> shows the problem of every character being placed on its own:
> 
>     \pdfcompresslevel=0 \pdfobjcompresslevel=0
>     \font\x = cmr10 \x Lorem
>     \end
> 
> And the output shows, like your document, every character being placed
> on its own:
> 
> .. [(L)]TJ 6.227 0 Td [(o)]TJ 4.981 0 Td [(r)]TJ 3.902 0 Td [(e)]TJ ...
> 
> I surmise this is related to Thanh's earlier bug fix (r77326, diff below):

Hm, and why does it affect only mac and linux?? On windows it is
fine (and the bug I reported in september seems to be fixed too).

Ulrike