Bug#796490: [texlive-latex-base] pdflatex does not create reproducible pdfs with multiple images

2017-04-01 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi David, JFYI, I have updated the texlive packages and have asked the release managers to include the new binaries into the next release. Upstream TeX Live has the patch already included in subversion. Thanks a lot for your research and communication Norbert -- PREINING Norbert

Bug#796490: [texlive-latex-base] pdflatex does not create reproducible pdfs with multiple images

2017-03-28 Thread David Fifield
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 01:57:00PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > Do you think that an update for testing (in pre-release freeze) is > required? Or possible? I don't know anything about the release process so I can't comment on that. I didn't test the change I suggested. This could be a

Bug#796490: [texlive-latex-base] pdflatex does not create reproducible pdfs with multiple images

2017-03-28 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi David, > The function write_png_rgb_alpha allocates twice as much memory as is > necessary for the smask buffer. The second half of the buffer is left > uninitialized and the whole buffer is copied to the output PDF file. It > only arises with PNG images that have an alpha channel. (I suppose

Bug#796490: [texlive-latex-base] pdflatex does not create reproducible pdfs with multiple images

2017-03-28 Thread David Fifield
On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 08:23:07AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > > I can still reproduce it inside a sid schroot (uptodate) and than run > > testscript.sh > > Yes, this is a different item. The first - fixed by updating - was > about differences in the fine dict. > > The problem with images

Bug#796490: [texlive-latex-base] pdflatex does not create reproducible pdfs with multiple images

2015-08-31 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Sandro, > I can still reproduce it inside a sid schroot (uptodate) and than run > testscript.sh Yes, this is a different item. The first - fixed by updating - was about differences in the fine dict. The problem with images is not solved by now. I have no idea where this comes from. I

Bug#796490: [texlive-latex-base] pdflatex does not create reproducible pdfs with multiple images

2015-08-23 Thread Sandro Knauß
Hey, I have checked by running pdflatex a few times, then compare two successive runs, that the only changes are: * /CreationDate * /ModDate * /ID in the /XRef table nothing else has changed. That is really strange, we have seen the diff inthe image blob mutiple times and also could

Bug#796490: [texlive-latex-base] pdflatex does not create reproducible pdfs with multiple images

2015-08-23 Thread Sandro Knauß
Hey, I can actually reproduce with the following: \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \tableofcontents \end{document} .. which somewhat contradicts my previous paragraph. We might have three issues here instead of just two. Have you run pdflatex multiple times? Beause with

Bug#796490: [texlive-latex-base] pdflatex does not create reproducible pdfs with multiple images

2015-08-23 Thread Norbert Preining
On Sun, 23 Aug 2015, Sandro Knauß wrote: That is really strange, we have seen the diff inthe image blob mutiple times and also could reproduce this on a openSuse. I'll give it another try in some days. And keep you informed. Please run pdflatex 3 or 4 times, and then compare two runs.

Bug#796490: [texlive-latex-base] pdflatex does not create reproducible pdfs with multiple images

2015-08-23 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Sandro On Sun, 23 Aug 2015, Sandro Knauß wrote: I can still reproduce the bug with the changing stream (images) with pdflatex 2014.20141024-2 on my system. Not surprising. Nothing will change on jessie. Can you please try it on sid with the packages that I uploaded yesterday. There I see

Bug#796490: [texlive-latex-base] pdflatex does not create reproducible pdfs with multiple images

2015-08-22 Thread Chris Lamb
pdflatex creates every time a different pdf (it differs in the emeded images). To clarify, the CreationDate and ModDate headers vary, but that is an separate issue. For example, in: http://i.imgur.com/GU5lqxF.png .. I am ignoring the top part of the diff. less pictures and no

Bug#796490: [texlive-latex-base] pdflatex does not create reproducible pdfs with multiple images

2015-08-22 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi all, On Sat, 22 Aug 2015, Sandro Knauß wrote: While testing why the owncloudClient pdf is not reproducible, we found a bug in pdflatex. The minimal document to triggerthis bug is a document with 4 I kind of disagree that this is a bug. It is a decision by the pdftex developers to embed

Bug#796490: [texlive-latex-base] pdflatex does not create reproducible pdfs with multiple images

2015-08-22 Thread Reiner Herrmann
The issue with timestamps Chris was mentioning is already tracked in another bug: #792202 and also sent upstream [1]. And upstream was already discussing about making the Timestamps and the ID turned off by default (and only embedded on request) [2]. This bug is actually only about the behavior

Bug#796490: [texlive-latex-base] pdflatex does not create reproducible pdfs with multiple images

2015-08-22 Thread Norbert Preining
On Sat, 22 Aug 2015, Reiner Herrmann wrote: tracked in another bug: #792202 and also sent upstream [1]. And upstream was already discussing about making the Timestamps and the ID turned off by default (and only embedded on request) [2]. Great to hear. Ignoring the Timestamps and the ID

Bug#796490: [texlive-latex-base] pdflatex does not create reproducible pdfs with multiple images

2015-08-22 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi all, (thanks Sandro for the files) On Sat, 22 Aug 2015, Reiner Herrmann wrote: Ignoring the Timestamps and the ID field, there is some additional unreproducibility with those specific PNG files (perhaps related to converting them or so), which should be fixed. I have checked by running