Hi Alain
Sending this file works fine for me. We are going to have to work with you on narrowing down the source of the problem. Could you file a bug report at https://gitlab.com/emacs-vm/vm so we can track the work?? Mark [email protected] <[email protected]> writes: > > Hello. > > I am using > > VM version is: 8.3.x > > GNU Emacs 29.4 (build 1, x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.43, > cairo version 1.18.2) of 2025-03-13 > > with Fedora 41: > > Linux frac 6.14.5-200.fc41.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri May 2 14:06:21 > UTC 2025 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > I have a tex file, 'file.tex', which I compile twice with pdflatex, > resulting in 'file.pdf'. > > If I send that pdf file as a VM attachment to my university email address, > it arrives corrupted (whether after fetching it with fetchmail and reading > it with VM, or directly accessing it from the university webmail GUI). > Same if I send it as a VM attachment to my gmail address. > > Neither evince nor okular can open it (evince says it's damaged). xpdf can > open it, though, and properly displays most of it, but some parts are > incorrect (see below). > > Encapsulating the pdf file within a tar file allows to send the file > without corruption, so in the attached tar file, I put > > file.tex, > file.pdf, > file_sent_from_VM.pdf > > the last one being the file sent as attachment with VM and which is > corrupted. > > I also directly attach 'file.pdf'. I contend that, for you, it will be > identical to 'file_sent_from_VM.pdf' -- hence corrupted. > > Looking at the content of the corrupted file with xpdf, I can see 2 > instances of corruption (there might be others). One is at point 17 (there > is a similar one at point 23), p. 3, where there is > > le produit de a par b ne s’écrit pas a ∗ b > > which becomes, in the corrupted file > > le produit de a par b ne s’écrit pas a b > > NB: I have tried to create a minimal example but am sorry that I could not > succeed (not in a reasonable time anyway, as performing a single test is > rather time consuming). For example, although the bug survived removing > the lines starting by '%' (most comments) in the tex file, it did not > survive after I further removed the blank lines; all other attempts at > further reducing the tex file failed. > > > I hope someone can figure it out! > > Thanks in advance, > > Alain > > x[DELETED ATTACHMENT file.tar, Untyped binary data] > x[DELETED ATTACHMENT file.pdf, PDF] > > -- > EOST (École et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre) > ITE (Institut Terre & Environnement) | [email protected] > 5 rue René Descartes | Phone: +33 (0)3 68 85 50 44 > F-67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France | bureau 110, ancien bât.
