Re: [rmcat] Pdf document formatting problems

[Henrik Levkowetz <[e-mail]>]

On 2014-03-13 17:52 Stefan Alfredsson said the following:
> * Quoting Eggert, Lars <[e-mail]> [13 Mar-14 13:01]:
>> Are you printing them or viewing them on screen?
>> 
>> If the former, I suspect a page size issue.
> 
> I became very curious of a PDF document that would *reformat*
> in different viewers (xpdf showed blank pages, but chrome was OK).
> 
> However, the discrepancy is caused by a stale web cache:
> 
> $ wget 'http://tools.ietf.org/pdf/draft-sarker-rmcat-eval-test-00.pdf'
> Connecting to tools.ietf.org (tools.ietf.org)|77.72.230.30|:80...
> Length: 76566 (75K) [application/pdf]
> 
> ### wait for it...
> 
> $ wget 'http://tools.ietf.org/pdf/draft-sarker-rmcat-eval-test-00.pdf'
>  Connecting to tools.ietf.org (tools.ietf.org)|64.170.98.42|:80...
> Length: 91706 (90K) [application/pdf]
> 
> 
> (or you can do a couple of shift-reload in Chrome)
> 
> 
> The PDF served from 77.72.230.30 has bad formatting,
> but the PDF from 64.170.98.42 is fine.
> As indicated above, they have different sizes and are
> also created on different days:
> 
> $ pdfinfo draft-sarker-rmcat-eval-test-00.pdf | grep Creation
> CreationDate:   Thu Feb 20 02:21:32 2014
> 
> $ pdfinfo draft-sarker-rmcat-eval-test-00.pdf.1 | grep Creation
> CreationDate:   Wed Feb 19 13:38:50 2014
> 
> I'm CCing the tools-webmaster so they can investigate.

The issue should be fixed now.  The underlying issue with the flawed generation
was fixed already about a month ago, but I'd neglected to clean out the cached
files on at least one of the tools servers.

Thanks for the analysis and alert!


Best regards,

	Henrik