On Aug 29, 2010, at 5:37 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:

>> Note that the PDF image is missing some characters here and there.  E.g., 
>> "NUMANode" on the PNG shows up as "NU  ANode" on the PDF.  "24MB" on the PNG 
>> is "24 B" on the PDF.
>> 
>> Any idea what causes this?
> 
> I'd tend to think cairo is guilty, like a fault in font processing.
> That might also be some buffer overrun which ends up right in the middle
> of the text string that utils/lstopo-cairo.c gives to cairo_show_text.

Actually -- this is even weirder: I think it's a bug in OS X Preview.  If I 
view the same PDF with Acorbat reader, it all looks fine.

I submitted a bug to bugreporter.apple.com.

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