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

[Mike Blazanin]

Awesome, thanks so much!

Mike

On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 11:22 AM Shota Ochi <shotaochi1990 using gmail.com> wrote:

> I reported the bug to bugzilla.
>
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1816128
>
> The bug is already fixed.
> We should use higher version of firefox or firefox nightly.
>
> 2023年2月10日(金) 22:23 jing hua zhao <jinghuazhao using hotmail.com>:
>
>> This is apparently  due to compression as needed fort package building,
>> e.g., R CMD build --compact-vignettes=both --md5 --resave-data --log gap so
>> mine has the same problem:
>> https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gap/vignettes/jss.pdf
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>> From: R-package-devel <r-package-devel-bounces using r-project.org> on behalf
>> of Mike Blazanin <mikeblazanin using gmail.com>
>> Sent: 09 February 2023 15:27
>> To: r-package-devel using r-project.org <r-package-devel using r-project.org>
>> Subject: [R-pkg-devel] CRAN Vignette pdfs garbled in Firefox pdf viewer
>>
>> 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
>>
>> opened with a local pdf viewer.
>>
>> 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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