[R-pkg-devel] CRAN Vignette pdfs garbled in Firefox pdf viewer

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 09/02/2023 10:27 a.m., Mike Blazanin wrote:
> Hi all, my package gcplyr has several vignettes which, from CRAN, appear
> garbled when opened with Firefox's pdf viewer (
> https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gcplyr/index.html). Specifically,
> instead of regular characters, there are numerous black-outlined white
> boxes with text inside like "EO 88" or "EO 55". This doesn't occur with the
> pdf vignettes on Github (https://github.com/mikeblazanin/gcplyr/). This
> also doesn't occur when CRAN pdfs are opened with Chrome's pdf viewer or
> Microsoft Edge's pdf viewer, nor when files are downloaded from CRAN and
> opened with a local pdf viewer.

I don't see a problem in Firefox 109.0.1 on a Mac.  Maybe the "0.1" is a 
bug fix?  Or maybe I looked in the wrong place.  Could you be very 
specific, i.e. URL, page, line.


Duncan Murdoch


> 
> The issue was documented here:
> https://github.com/mikeblazanin/gcplyr/issues/112
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions for what could be causing this?
> 
> Thanks!
> Mike Blazanin
> 
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