Re: [pretest] regression in pdftex

"Clason, Christian ([email protected])" <[email protected]> Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:02:02 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.live
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hmm, I updated straight from ftp://ftp.tug.org/texlive/tlpretest, but you’re right, the binary is still the same (looks like the universal-darwin build didn’t make it into today’s update).

I’ll wait until the rebuild is done. Sorry for the noise!

> On 17.02.2026, at 11:54, Harald Koenig <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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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