[arch-general] TeXLive 2011 pretest

[Kazuo Teramoto]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Bernardo Barros
<bernardobarros2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> anyone got problems with texlive 2011 usage so far?
>

I'm getting a problem with synctex, its don't work with tl 2011 for me, e.g.:

---------------2011--------------
% pdflatex -synctex=1 sample2e
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-1.40.12 (TeX Live 2011/Arch Linux)
[...]
SyncTeX written on sample2e.synctex.gz.
Transcript written on sample2e.log.

% synctex view -i
42:1:/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/sample2e.tex -o sample2e.pdf
This is SyncTeX command line utility, version 1.2
SyncTeX ERROR: SyncTeX Error: Bad preamble

---------------2011--------------

But with 2010 I get:
---------------2010--------------
% pdflatex -synctex=1 sample2e
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (TeX Live 2010/Arch Linux)
[...]
SyncTeX written on sample2e.synctex.gz.
Transcript written on sample2e.log.

% synctex view -i
42:1:/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/sample2e.tex -o sample2e.pdf
This is SyncTeX command line utility, version 1.2
SyncTeX result begin
Output:sample2e.pdf
Page:1
x:386.784882
y:380.216461
h:133.768356
v:382.153625
W:343.711060
H:8.855677
before:
offset:0
middle:
after:
Output:sample2e.pdf
Page:1
x:179.069794
y:392.171631
h:133.768356
v:394.316345
W:343.711060
H:9.063227
before:
offset:0
middle:
after:
SyncTeX result end
---------------2010--------------

I read (don't remember where) that synctex have a bug with gziped
files that give the "Bad preamble" error, so if I gunzip the synctex
file I get:
---------------2011--------------
% gunzip sample2e.synctex.gz

% synctex view -i
42:1:/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/sample2e.tex -o sample2e.pdf
This is SyncTeX command line utility, version 1.2

%
---------------2011--------------

i.e. no error but no output.

Don't know if this is a packaging or upstream bug (or user bug =]),
what you think?

Thanks,
Kazuo

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