font-syn.lua error

font-syn.lua error

[Andreas Harder]

Hi,

if I try to run 
$ mtxrun --script fonts –reload
it ends with: 
...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:666: attempt to call field 'data_state' (a nil value)


The same with

\definefont[test][name:minionpro-regular]
\starttext
\test Hallo Welt, das ist ein Test
\stoptext


Greetings,
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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Tim Wraight]

On 21 Nov 2009, at 18:49, Andreas Harder wrote:
> if I try to run 
> $ mtxrun --script fonts –reload
> it ends with: 
> ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:666: attempt to call field 'data_state' (a nil value)
Yes, I'm getting a similar error here too:
$ mtxrun --script font --list --reload
produces:
‘.../tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua/mtx-fonts.lua:116: attempt to index global 'names' (a nil value)’

MTXrun | current version: 2009.11.21 11:45

Tim
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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Hans Hagen]

Andreas Harder wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> if I try to run 
> $ mtxrun --script fonts –reload
> it ends with: 
> ....text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:666: attempt to call field 'data_state' (a nil value)

that means that you run an old mtxrun (try mtxrun --selfupdate)

Hans


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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Andreas Harder]

Am 22.11.2009 um 13:16 schrieb Hans Hagen:

> Andreas Harder wrote:
>> Hi,
>> if I try to run $ mtxrun --script fonts –reload
>> it ends with: ....text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:666: attempt to call field 'data_state' (a nil value)
> 
> that means that you run an old mtxrun (try mtxrun –selfupdate)

I've tried it already, the error is still the same …

Andreas 
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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Hans Hagen]

Andreas Harder wrote:
> Am 22.11.2009 um 13:16 schrieb Hans Hagen:
> 
>> Andreas Harder wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> if I try to run $ mtxrun --script fonts –reload
>>> it ends with: ....text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:666: attempt to call field 'data_state' (a nil value)
>> that means that you run an old mtxrun (try mtxrun –selfupdate)
> 
> I've tried it already, the error is still the same …

and what if you run

mtxrun --script font --reload


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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Khaled Hosny]

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On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 02:14:05PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Andreas Harder wrote:
>> Am 22.11.2009 um 13:16 schrieb Hans Hagen:
>>
>>> Andreas Harder wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> if I try to run $ mtxrun --script fonts –reload
>>>> it ends with: ....text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:666: attempt to call field 'data_state' (a nil value)
>>> that means that you run an old mtxrun (try mtxrun –selfupdate)
>>
>> I've tried it already, the error is still the same …
>
> and what if you run
>
> mtxrun --script font --reload

$ mtxrun --script font --reload
...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:666: attempt to call field 'data_state' (a nil value)



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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Hans Hagen]

Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 02:14:05PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> Andreas Harder wrote:
>>> Am 22.11.2009 um 13:16 schrieb Hans Hagen:
>>>
>>>> Andreas Harder wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> if I try to run $ mtxrun --script fonts –reload
>>>>> it ends with: ....text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:666: attempt to call field 'data_state' (a nil value)
>>>> that means that you run an old mtxrun (try mtxrun –selfupdate)
>>> I've tried it already, the error is still the same …
>> and what if you run
>>
>> mtxrun --script font --reload
> 
> $ mtxrun --script font --reload
> ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:666: attempt to call field 'data_state' (a nil value)

that line says

         data_state = resolvers.data_state(),

so resolvers has no data_state entry which in turn means that you run an 
old mtxrun, so maybe you need top copy mtxrun.lua manually to where it 
currently sits in yout path (as mtxrun)

Hans


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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

On Nov 22, 2009, at 10:19 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

>> $ mtxrun --script font --reload
>> ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:666: attempt to call field 'data_state' (a nil value)
> 
> that line says
> 
>        data_state = resolvers.data_state(),
> 
> so resolvers has no data_state entry which in turn means that you run an old mtxrun, so maybe you need top copy mtxrun.lua manually to where it currently sits in yout path (as mtxrun)
> 
> Hans
> 

Hans, is it possible that you forgot to include the new version of mtxrun.lua in the zip? 

% diff ~/context/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua/mtxrun.lua ~/context/tex/texmf-osx-intel/bin/mtxrun 
[no result ==> files are identical]

% mtxrun --script fonts --reload
...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:666: attempt to call field 'data_state' (a nil value)

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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Hans Hagen]

Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> On Nov 22, 2009, at 10:19 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> 
>>> $ mtxrun --script font --reload
>>> ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:666: attempt to call field 'data_state' (a nil value)
>> that line says
>>
>>        data_state = resolvers.data_state(),
>>
>> so resolvers has no data_state entry which in turn means that you run an old mtxrun, so maybe you need top copy mtxrun.lua manually to where it currently sits in yout path (as mtxrun)
>>
>> Hans
>>
> 
> Hans, is it possible that you forgot to include the new version of mtxrun.lua in the zip? 
> 
> % diff ~/context/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua/mtxrun.lua ~/context/tex/texmf-osx-intel/bin/mtxrun 
> [no result ==> files are identical]
> 
> % mtxrun --script fonts --reload
> ....text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:666: attempt to call field 'data_state' (a nil value)

maybe. i'll check it tomorrow morning

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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

On Nov 22, 2009, at 10:19 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

> that line says
> 
>        data_state = resolvers.data_state(),
> 
> so resolvers has no data_state entry which in turn means that you run an old mtxrun, so maybe you need top copy mtxrun.lua manually to where it currently sits in yout path (as mtxrun)

Just an afterthought to this problem: I discovered yesterday that the same file behaved quite differently in different viewers. It was a file compiled with the latest beta under linux, luatex 0.44, and with my own fonts. 

1. In evince under linux, the file looked fine, no problems were apparent.

2. In Preview under OS X, the file showed only blank pages.

3. In Adobe Reader 9, both under linux and OS X, the file refused to open with a dialogue saying it was damaged and couldn't be repaired.

So unfortunately, this is something we have to keep in mind when we test something and say "works here."

Best

Thomas
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Re: font-syn.lua error

[luigi scarso]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz
<thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>
> On Nov 22, 2009, at 10:19 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>> that line says
>>
>>        data_state = resolvers.data_state(),
>>
>> so resolvers has no data_state entry which in turn means that you run an old mtxrun, so maybe you need top copy mtxrun.lua manually to where it currently sits in yout path (as mtxrun)
>
> Just an afterthought to this problem: I discovered yesterday that the same file behaved quite differently in different viewers. It was a file compiled with the latest beta under linux, luatex 0.44, and with my own fonts.
>
> 1. In evince under linux, the file looked fine, no problems were apparent.
what about xpdf and ghostscript?
Can you also try with mupdf ?
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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

On Nov 25, 2009, at 8:15 AM, luigi scarso wrote:

>> 1. In evince under linux, the file looked fine, no problems were apparent.
> what about xpdf and ghostscript?
> Can you also try with mupdf ?

That wasn't the point, I was not trying to give a comparative table of pdf-viewers. luatex was buggy, but some viewers displayed the pdf nonetheless. Doesn't make sense to test a dozen viewers because next time around, the subset which does or does not work may be totally different.

Thomas
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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Taco Hoekwater]

Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> On Nov 25, 2009, at 8:15 AM, luigi scarso wrote:
> 
>>> 1. In evince under linux, the file looked fine, no problems were
>>> apparent.
>> what about xpdf and ghostscript? Can you also try with mupdf ?

mupdf quite often crashes on completely valid pdf documents, effectively
making it useless in practice. What's worse: those bugs are hard to fix
because some really bad implementation decisions were made.

Best wishes,
Taco
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Re: font-syn.lua error

[luigi scarso]

ah I've seen it just now
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote:
>
> mupdf quite often crashes on completely valid pdf documents, effectively
> making it useless in practice.
hm
bad news,

> What's worse: those bugs are hard to fix
> because some really bad implementation decisions were made.
What are these decisions ?


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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Taco Hoekwater]

luigi scarso wrote:
> ah I've seen it just now
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote:
>> mupdf quite often crashes on completely valid pdf documents, effectively
>> making it useless in practice.
> hm
> bad news,
> 
>> What's worse: those bugs are hard to fix
>> because some really bad implementation decisions were made.
> What are these decisions ?

Using the C stack for recursion is the main problem. Pdfs with a large
number of objects (annots) are likely to exhaust the stack, resulting
in a hard crash of mupdf.

Best wishes,
Taco
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Re: font-syn.lua error

[luigi scarso]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote:
> luigi scarso wrote:
>
> Using the C stack for recursion is the main problem. Pdfs with a large
> number of objects (annots) are likely to exhaust the stack, resulting
> in a hard crash of mupdf.
can we make a good pdf with luatex to check this ?


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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Taco Hoekwater]

luigi scarso wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote:
>> luigi scarso wrote:
>>
>> Using the C stack for recursion is the main problem. Pdfs with a large
>> number of objects (annots) are likely to exhaust the stack, resulting
>> in a hard crash of mupdf.
> can we make a good pdf with luatex to check this ?

I don't see why not, but I'll pass. I have enough to do already.

Best wishes,
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Re: font-syn.lua error

[luigi scarso]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote:
> luigi scarso wrote:
>> can we make a good pdf with luatex to check this ?
>
> I don't see why not, but I'll pass. I have enough to do already.
Maybe something like this

%\pdfcompresslevel0
%\pdfobjcompresslevel0
\setupinteraction[state=start]
\setupcolors[state=start]
\starttext
\noindent\dorecurse{100000}{%
\pagereference[z\recurselevel]Foo\recurselevel\quad
}
\noindent\dorecurse{100000}{%
(see \at{page}[z\recurselevel])\quad
}
\stoptext


No problem with mupdf.


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Re: font-syn.lua error

[luigi scarso]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz
<thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>
> On Nov 25, 2009, at 8:15 AM, luigi scarso wrote:
>
>>> 1. In evince under linux, the file looked fine, no problems were apparent.
>> what about xpdf and ghostscript?
>> Can you also try with mupdf ?
>
> That wasn't the point, I was not trying to give a comparative table of pdf-viewers. luatex was buggy, but some viewers displayed the pdf nonetheless. Doesn't make sense to test a dozen viewers because next time around, the subset which does or does not work may be totally different.

Not dozen, only   2~3 but code independent .My choices are
1) xpdf (same codebase of luatex)
2)acroread (the most important  viewer for pdf )
3) ghostscript (also used by context )
They are all used / important for TeX community and printing house.

mupdf comes from ghostscript team , it's quick but young,
it comes with some interesting cmdline tools .
Until now I was not able to use it as viewer in everyday use,
so I don't know if it's good or not for checking pdf made by luatex
I believe that Taco  knows mupdf better than me.



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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Alan BRASLAU]

On Wednesday 25 November 2009 09:54:36 luigi scarso wrote:
> > That wasn't the point, I was not trying to give a comparative table of
> > pdf-viewers. luatex was buggy, but some viewers displayed the pdf
> > nonetheless. Doesn't make sense to test a dozen viewers because next time
> > around, the subset which does or does not work may be totally different.
> 
> Not dozen, only   2~3 but code independent .My choices are
> 1) xpdf (same codebase of luatex)
> 2)acroread (the most important  viewer for pdf )
> 3) ghostscript (also used by context )
> They are all used / important for TeX community and printing house.

I understood that xpdf has been replaced by poppler, a rewritten PDF
rendering library (based originally on xpdf, however I am no authority).
This library is the motor behind the viewers evince (gnome) and okular (kde).

If this is different from the codebase used by luatex,
should luatex eventually be migrated to popplar?

Alan
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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Hans Hagen]

Alan BRASLAU wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 November 2009 09:54:36 luigi scarso wrote:
>>> That wasn't the point, I was not trying to give a comparative table of
>>> pdf-viewers. luatex was buggy, but some viewers displayed the pdf
>>> nonetheless. Doesn't make sense to test a dozen viewers because next time
>>> around, the subset which does or does not work may be totally different.
>> Not dozen, only   2~3 but code independent .My choices are
>> 1) xpdf (same codebase of luatex)
>> 2)acroread (the most important  viewer for pdf )
>> 3) ghostscript (also used by context )
>> They are all used / important for TeX community and printing house.
> 
> I understood that xpdf has been replaced by poppler, a rewritten PDF
> rendering library (based originally on xpdf, however I am no authority).
> This library is the motor behind the viewers evince (gnome) and okular (kde).
> 
> If this is different from the codebase used by luatex,
> should luatex eventually be migrated to popplar?

we only need a limited library, no rendering, only loading and 
inclusion, and the problems that were reported are related to rendering

Hans


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Re: font-syn.lua error

[luigi scarso]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr> wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 November 2009 09:54:36 luigi scarso wrote:
>> Not dozen, only   2~3 but code independent .My choices are
>> 1) xpdf (same codebase of luatex)
> I understood that xpdf has been replaced by poppler, a rewritten PDF
> rendering library (based originally on xpdf, however I am no authority).
> This library is the motor behind the viewers evince (gnome) and okular (kde).
>
> If this is different from the codebase used by luatex,
> should luatex eventually be migrated to popplar?
>
> Alan
>

If I understand it correctly, by default luatex is build with code
taken from xpdf codebase
but you can choose to use your system libpoppler .

source/configure:
--with-system-xpdf
 use installed poppler headers and library instead of
 xpdf (requires pkg-config)

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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Martin Schröder]

2009/11/25 Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr>:
> If this is different from the codebase used by luatex,
> should luatex eventually be migrated to popplar?

Yes, and you can already compile luatex with poppler (texlive does
that).
For more see my talk at EuroTeX 2009:
http://www.oneiros.de/tex/papers/eurotex2009-pdflibs.pdf

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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Hans Hagen]

Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> On Nov 25, 2009, at 8:15 AM, luigi scarso wrote:
> 
>>> 1. In evince under linux, the file looked fine, no problems were apparent.
>> what about xpdf and ghostscript?
>> Can you also try with mupdf ?
> 
> That wasn't the point, I was not trying to give a comparative table of pdf-viewers. luatex was buggy, but some viewers displayed the pdf nonetheless. Doesn't make sense to test a dozen viewers because next time around, the subset which does or does not work may be totally different.

the bug is that the x scale is zero and acrobat does not like that too 
much and simply quits rendering (old versions crash); it might be that 
other viewers then take some default

the zero bug is just a side effect of rewriting backend code of luatex 
and is solved in upcoming 0.46

Hans

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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Alan BRASLAU]

On Wednesday 25 November 2009 08:15:48 luigi scarso wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz
> 
> <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> > On Nov 22, 2009, at 10:19 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> >
> > Just an afterthought to this problem: I discovered yesterday that the
> > same file behaved quite differently in different viewers. It was a file
> > compiled with the latest beta under linux, luatex 0.44, and with my own
> > fonts.
> >
> > 1. In evince under linux, the file looked fine, no problems were
> > apparent.
> 
> what about xpdf and ghostscript?
> Can you also try with mupdf ?
> 

Maybe unrelated, but maybe a luatex error as well:
transparency seems to work correctly when viewed with okular
(same library as evince) but not when view with acroread,
(including the windows version).

Alan
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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Taco Hoekwater]

Alan BRASLAU wrote:
> 
> Maybe unrelated, but maybe a luatex error as well:
> transparency seems to work correctly when viewed with okular
> (same library as evince) but not when view with acroread,
> (including the windows version).

What is 'not'? If you means that the rest of the page looks
crappy, that is known Acrobat behavior. If you want all pages
to look the same (crappy) in AR, use \TransparancyHack.

If there is no transparancy at all, then there could be a
problem within mkiv or luatex.

Best wishes,
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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Alan BRASLAU]

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On Wednesday 25 November 2009 09:37:11 Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Alan BRASLAU wrote:
> > Maybe unrelated, but maybe a luatex error as well:
> > transparency seems to work correctly when viewed with okular
> > (same library as evince) but not when view with acroread,
> > (including the windows version).
> 
> What is 'not'? If you means that the rest of the page looks
> crappy, that is known Acrobat behavior. If you want all pages
> to look the same (crappy) in AR, use \TransparancyHack.
> 
> If there is no transparancy at all, then there could be a
> problem within mkiv or luatex.
> 

No transparancy, or perhaps total transparancy, my test cannot tell
as I am using transparancy in metafun to produce a gradient
from .5white to black.

Printing the page under acroread then hangs.

Alan

P.S. looks OK under xpdf.

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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Taco Hoekwater]

Alan BRASLAU wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 November 2009 09:37:11 Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>> Alan BRASLAU wrote:
>>> Maybe unrelated, but maybe a luatex error as well:
>>> transparency seems to work correctly when viewed with okular
>>> (same library as evince) but not when view with acroread,
>>> (including the windows version).
>> What is 'not'? If you means that the rest of the page looks
>> crappy, that is known Acrobat behavior. If you want all pages
>> to look the same (crappy) in AR, use \TransparancyHack.
>>
>> If there is no transparancy at all, then there could be a
>> problem within mkiv or luatex.
>>
> 
> No transparancy, or perhaps total transparancy, my test cannot tell
> as I am using transparancy in metafun to produce a gradient
> from .5white to black.
> 
> Printing the page under acroread then hangs.

Odd file. Can you send me the source? I would like to play with it
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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Hans Hagen]

Alan BRASLAU wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 November 2009 09:37:11 Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>> Alan BRASLAU wrote:
>>> Maybe unrelated, but maybe a luatex error as well:
>>> transparency seems to work correctly when viewed with okular
>>> (same library as evince) but not when view with acroread,
>>> (including the windows version).
>> What is 'not'? If you means that the rest of the page looks
>> crappy, that is known Acrobat behavior. If you want all pages
>> to look the same (crappy) in AR, use \TransparancyHack.
>>
>> If there is no transparancy at all, then there could be a
>> problem within mkiv or luatex.
>>
> 
> No transparancy, or perhaps total transparancy, my test cannot tell
> as I am using transparancy in metafun to produce a gradient
> from .5white to black.
> 
> Printing the page under acroread then hangs.

hard to see in a compressed file, next time use \nopdfcompression

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Re: font-syn.lua error

[luigi scarso]

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On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>
> hard to see in a compressed file, next time use \nopdfcompression
It looks a bit strange
/opt/mupdf/pdfshow  -x compass.pdf xref
xref
0 21
0000000001 00255 f (ref=0, ofs=0)
0000000002 00255 f (ref=0, ofs=0)
0000000003 00255 f (ref=0, ofs=0)
0000000004 00255 f (ref=0, ofs=0)
0000000006 00255 f (ref=0, ofs=0)
0000000010 00003 o (ref=1, ofs=0)
0000000007 00255 f (ref=0, ofs=0)
0000000008 00255 f (ref=0, ofs=0)
0000000000 00255 f (ref=0, ofs=0)
0000000010 00000 o (ref=1, ofs=0)
0000013738 00000 n (ref=1, ofs=13829)
0000000010 00001 o (ref=1, ofs=0)
0000000015 00000 n (ref=0, ofs=0)
0000000010 00002 o (ref=1, ofs=0)
0000000010 00005 o (ref=1, ofs=0)
0000000010 00004 o (ref=1, ofs=0)
0000013060 00000 n (ref=0, ofs=0)
0000000010 00006 o (ref=1, ofs=0)
0000000010 00007 o (ref=2, ofs=0)
0000013199 00000 n (ref=2, ofs=0)
0000000000 00000 n (ref=1, ofs=14396)

I have made a zip with all  objs decompressed in attachment.

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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Hans Hagen]

Alan BRASLAU wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 November 2009 09:37:11 Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>> Alan BRASLAU wrote:
>>> Maybe unrelated, but maybe a luatex error as well:
>>> transparency seems to work correctly when viewed with okular
>>> (same library as evince) but not when view with acroread,
>>> (including the windows version).
>> What is 'not'? If you means that the rest of the page looks
>> crappy, that is known Acrobat behavior. If you want all pages
>> to look the same (crappy) in AR, use \TransparancyHack.
>>
>> If there is no transparancy at all, then there could be a
>> problem within mkiv or luatex.
>>
> 
> No transparancy, or perhaps total transparancy, my test cannot tell
> as I am using transparancy in metafun to produce a gradient
> from .5white to black.

a ca of 0.0055 is not that much but hard to track without source

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[luigi scarso]

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On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr> wrote:

> No transparancy, or perhaps total transparancy, my test cannot tell
> as I am using transparancy in metafun to produce a gradient
> from .5white to black.
>
> Printing the page under acroread then hangs.
>
> Alan
>
> P.S. looks OK under xpdf.

mupdf shows it completely  different

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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Hans Hagen]

luigi scarso wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr> wrote:
> 
>> No transparancy, or perhaps total transparancy, my test cannot tell
>> as I am using transparancy in metafun to produce a gradient
>> from .5white to black.
>>
>> Printing the page under acroread then hangs.
>>
>> Alan
>>
>> P.S. looks OK under xpdf.
> 
> mupdf shows it completely  different

my experience is that there are only a few viewers capable of dealing 
with transparencies (wrong clipping, wrong colors, etc)

Hans


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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Taco Hoekwater]

Hans Hagen wrote:
> luigi scarso wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> No transparancy, or perhaps total transparancy, my test cannot tell
>>> as I am using transparancy in metafun to produce a gradient
>>> from .5white to black.
>>>
>>> Printing the page under acroread then hangs.
>>>
>>> Alan
>>>
>>> P.S. looks OK under xpdf.
>>
>> mupdf shows it completely  different

I believe it is safe to say that that rendering is quite wrong. ;)

> my experience is that there are only a few viewers capable of dealing 
> with transparencies (wrong clipping, wrong colors, etc)

Same here. And actually, xpdf often does a better job than acroread
(I suspect that the implementation of the colormodel AR switches to in
that case is less-than-perfect)

Best wishes,
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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Hans Hagen]

Taco Hoekwater wrote:

> Same here. And actually, xpdf often does a better job than acroread
> (I suspect that the implementation of the colormodel AR switches to in
> that case is less-than-perfect)

also, acrobat has this 'simulate paper' mechanism that influences the 
rendering

Hans

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Re: font-syn.lua error

[luigi scarso]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote:

> I believe it is safe to say that that rendering is quite wrong. ;)

The problem is that pratically this pdf is wrong because
Acroread is not able to print.

AR also shows something different from xpdf , gs shows the same of AR too
mupdf show something completely different,
and I believe from experience  that xpdf is right,
but at this point the only thing that I care is to understand what is
wrong with AR given that xpdf is right.
The only solution is to uncompress and study the pdf
and the source -- which we don't have .
mupdf tools, xpdf tools, and  gs can help in this:
it seems that xref is a bit messy, so it can be a problem of metapost
too, or maybe not at all.

In this situation I don't care about poppler, evince, okular, foxit
etc -- all marvelous program, but they can't help
more than the others.


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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Hans Hagen]

luigi scarso wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote:
> 
>> I believe it is safe to say that that rendering is quite wrong. ;)
> 
> The problem is that pratically this pdf is wrong because
> Acroread is not able to print.
> 
> AR also shows something different from xpdf , gs shows the same of AR too
> mupdf show something completely different,
> and I believe from experience  that xpdf is right,
> but at this point the only thing that I care is to understand what is
> wrong with AR given that xpdf is right.
> The only solution is to uncompress and study the pdf
> and the source -- which we don't have .
> mupdf tools, xpdf tools, and  gs can help in this:
> it seems that xref is a bit messy, so it can be a problem of metapost
> too, or maybe not at all.

as it concerns an older luatex ... it's probably the zero xscale ...

0 0 0 1 0 0 cm

makes acrobat unhappy


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Re: font-syn.lua error

[luigi scarso]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr> wrote:

> No transparancy, or perhaps total transparancy, my test cannot tell
> as I am using transparancy in metafun to produce a gradient
> from .5white to black.
>
> Printing the page under acroread then hangs.

Try it again with latest luatex (0.46) ,
and then
# acroread  -toPostScript  -size 108x108 -expand compass.pdf
# ps2pdf14 compass.ps b.pdf
Now you should be able to print the "AR version" of compass.pdf
(which is not what you actually see with xpdf)
Warning: compass.ps ~ 25M

For a rough version of compass.pdf
# pstopdf -paper match   compass.pdf
# ps2pdf14 compass.ps c.pdf
and now AR should be display it ok

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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Taco Hoekwater]

Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> 
> Just an afterthought to this problem: I discovered yesterday that the
> same file behaved quite differently in different viewers. It was a
> file compiled with the latest beta under linux, luatex 0.44, and with
> my own fonts.

Sounds like this bug in 0.44 that was fixed already:

   Bug fixes in 0.45:

   ....

   * Remove spurious newlines in the output pdf that could be the
     result of using \pdfximage for an included pdf figure too early.

Best wishes,
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[Thomas A. Schmitz]

On Nov 25, 2009, at 8:20 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

> Sounds like this bug in 0.44 that was fixed already:
> 
>  Bug fixes in 0.45:

Yes, the bug has been fixed, and I should have mentioned that; I just wanted to point out that tests may be sometimes deceptive: when I see an empty pdf in preview and someone else runs the test file with evince, his first reaction will probably be "runs OK here, must be a misconfiguration in your installtion." 

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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Hans Hagen]

Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> On Nov 22, 2009, at 10:19 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> 
>> that line says
>>
>>        data_state = resolvers.data_state(),
>>
>> so resolvers has no data_state entry which in turn means that you run an old mtxrun, so maybe you need top copy mtxrun.lua manually to where it currently sits in yout path (as mtxrun)
> 
> Just an afterthought to this problem: I discovered yesterday that the same file behaved quite differently in different viewers. It was a file compiled with the latest beta under linux, luatex 0.44, and with my own fonts. 
> 
> 1. In evince under linux, the file looked fine, no problems were apparent.
> 
> 2. In Preview under OS X, the file showed only blank pages.
> 
> 3. In Adobe Reader 9, both under linux and OS X, the file refused to open with a dialogue saying it was damaged and couldn't be repaired.
> 
> So unfortunately, this is something we have to keep in mind when we test something and say "works here."

yes, it would be nice to have a document that includes all such bug 
triggers, but we need a volunteer for that (not context bugs, but 
graphical rendering issues)

Hans

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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Andreas Harder]

Am 22.11.2009 um 14:14 schrieb Hans Hagen:

> Andreas Harder wrote:
>> Am 22.11.2009 um 13:16 schrieb Hans Hagen:
>>> Andreas Harder wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> if I try to run $ mtxrun --script fonts –reload
>>>> it ends with: ....text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:666: attempt to call field 'data_state' (a nil value)
>>> that means that you run an old mtxrun (try mtxrun –selfupdate)
>> I've tried it already, the error is still the same …
> 
> and what if you run
> 
> mtxrun --script font –reload

Sorry, still there!

Andreas
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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 19:49, Andreas Harder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> if I try to run
> $ mtxrun --script fonts –reload
> it ends with:
> ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:666: attempt to call field 'data_state' (a nil value)

What operating system?

I don't know if that can be a problem, but some platforms don't have
LuaTeX beta-0.45.0 yet (freebsd, linux and linux-ppc; if you are on
Mac, you can try to update once again).

Mojca
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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Khaled Hosny]

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On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 02:41:08PM +0100, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 19:49, Andreas Harder wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > if I try to run
> > $ mtxrun --script fonts –reload
> > it ends with:
> > ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:666: attempt to call field 'data_state' (a nil value)
> 
> What operating system?
> 
> I don't know if that can be a problem, but some platforms don't have
> LuaTeX beta-0.45.0 yet (freebsd, linux and linux-ppc; if you are on
> Mac, you can try to update once again).

I get the same error with both 0.44 and 0.45 on Linux.


-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer

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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Andreas Harder]

Am 22.11.2009 um 14:41 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:

> On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 19:49, Andreas Harder wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> if I try to run
>> $ mtxrun --script fonts –reload
>> it ends with:
>> ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:666: attempt to call field 'data_state' (a nil value)
> 
> What operating system?

I'm on OS-X 10.6 and using the newest beta.

> 
> I don't know if that can be a problem, but some platforms don't have
> LuaTeX beta-0.45.0 yet (freebsd, linux and linux-ppc; if you are on
> Mac, you can try to update once again).

I tired again, the result is the same error.

If I run the test file from my initial post:

\definefont[test][name:minionpro-regular] % font is not in TeX-tree
\starttext
\test Hallo Welt, das ist ein Test
\stoptext

the error message is more verbose, perhaps it can help.

! LuaTeX error ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:666: attempt to call field 'data_state' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
	...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:666: in function 'resetdata'
	...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:671: in function 'identify'
	...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:696: in function 'load'
	...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:707: in function 'load'
	...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:844: in function 'resolve'
	...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:243: in function 'r'
	...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:270: in function 'resolve'
	...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:574: in function 'read'
	...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-ctx.lua:359: in function 'command_2'
	<main ctx instance>:1: in main chunk.
\lowleveldefinefont ...dimexpr \textface \relax )}
                                                  \edef \somefontspec {at \s...
\dododefinefont ...inefont {#2}\rawfontidentifier 
                                                  \csname \rawfontidentifier...
l.5 \test
          Hallo Welt, das ist ein Test


Greetings

	Andreas

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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 22.11.2009 um 15:09 schrieb Andreas Harder:

> Am 22.11.2009 um 14:41 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
> 
>> What operating system?
> 
> I'm on OS-X 10.6 and using the newest beta.

had you done

luatools --selfupdate
mtxrun --selfupdate

Wolfgang

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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Andreas Harder]

Am 22.11.2009 um 15:15 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster:

> 
> Am 22.11.2009 um 15:09 schrieb Andreas Harder:
> 
>> Am 22.11.2009 um 14:41 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
>> 
>>> What operating system?
>> 
>> I'm on OS-X 10.6 and using the newest beta.
> 
> had you done
> 
> luatools --selfupdate
> mtxrun –selfupdate

Yes! And I tried to delete the cache, the binaries, etc. and updated again. It works fine with Latin Modern and TeX Gyre fonts or if I put the font in the directory of the source file and define it without 'name:'.

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Re: font-syn.lua error

[Bernhard Rosensteiner]

Hello,

same problem here exactly as described by Andreas (and reported in: http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20091122.111218.3b9a921f.en.html).

best regards
Bernhard

Am 22.11.2009 um 15:26 schrieb Andreas Harder:

> 
> Am 22.11.2009 um 15:15 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster:
> 
>> 
>> Am 22.11.2009 um 15:09 schrieb Andreas Harder:
>> 
>>> Am 22.11.2009 um 14:41 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
>>> 
>>>> What operating system?
>>> 
>>> I'm on OS-X 10.6 and using the newest beta.
>> 
>> had you done
>> 
>> luatools --selfupdate
>> mtxrun –selfupdate
> 
> Yes! And I tried to delete the cache, the binaries, etc. and updated again. It works fine with Latin Modern and TeX Gyre fonts or if I put the font in the directory of the source file and define it without 'name:'.
> 
> Andreas
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