Re: [pretest] regression in pdftex

Harald Koenig via tex-live <[email protected]> Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:54:48 +0100

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On Feb 17, Clason, Christian ([email protected]) wrote:

> I just tested this with today’s pdftex update (r77857?) and regret to report that the regression persists.
> 
> (Not fully a surprise, since I didn’t see how the diff could fix an issue that seems to be platform/architecture specific…)

looks like your mirror is not up to date yet?!
from https://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tlpretest I got

[Tue Feb 17 10:54:00 2026] update: pdftex.x86_64-linux (77755 -> 77900)
[Tue Feb 17 10:54:10 2026] update: pdftex (77830 -> 77868)

and here single glyph placement is fixed for me [TM] 

-rw-r--r--. 1 harald users 36176 Feb 16 09:28 story-tl25.pdf
-rw-r--r--  1 harald users 36497 Feb 16 09:28 story-tl26-old.pdf
-rw-r--r--  1 harald users 36176 Feb 17 11:03 story-tl26-now.pdf

(I've disassembled PDF and checked output code;)


Harald
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