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Linux 'File->Print Preview' produces completely scrambled output in V14.0 and 14.1

Posted 10 months ago

Any help in fixing this will be appreciated.

On Linux (openSUSE Leap 15.6) but not on Windows 11, with all of the notebooks I have tested, saving as PDF produces complete gibberish using several different style sheets. I have tried this under a different user account. I have deleted Mathematica 14.0 and 14.1 then reinstalled Mathematica 14.1. I removed everything related to Wolfram and Mathematica other than my Notebooks from my home directory prior to reinstallation. The problem is still there. I did not notice this problem until about 2 days ago (~6 September 2024). It happened with both 14.0 and 14.1. I'm guessing it's due to a recent OS update or software installation. I have no idea what Mathematica calls in order to output to PDF.

The problem appears to be related to style sheets. I use a derivative of the Textbook.nb style sheet for all of my notebooks. Changing to Textbook.nb doesn't fix the problem. The problem doesn't happen if I create a new notebook and copy the content of (for example) the included notebook into the newly created default notebook.

Since the problem presents itself both when I File->Save As...->Files of tyep: PDF Document(*.pdf) and File->Print Preview..., I am using those actions interchangeably.

This is an example of a notebook which isn't saving as PDF properly on Linux:


This is the result of saving as PDF on Windows 11:

saved as PDF on Windows 11


This is the result of `Print Preview` on Linux with `Textbook.nb` as the style sheet:

print preview on Linux


This is what happens with a default notebook:

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The attached files are the PDF output by Linux (review-01-03-01-01-natural-numbers-summary.pdf) and that output by Windows (review-01-03-01-01-natural-numbers-summary-win.pdf). I opened them with Emacs and looked at the raw data. I note that they are using different fonts, which doesn't make sense to me since the same file was used as input and both configurations are essentially default.

POSTED BY: Steven Hatton

A complete reinstallation of the OS did not correct the problem.

POSTED BY: Steven Hatton
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