Bug 88845

Sounds like a passivetex bug.

Please provide a small example document that this happens for you with.

Also, this looks a little like it might be to do with character encodings.  What
does 'locale' say?

Here's the output of locale:

[swalker@swalker xmlto-bug]$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

I will also attach a small sample document.

Created attachment 91276 [details]
TestCase

"Textual Garbage" in bookmark output is seen in the "bookmark" pane of Adobe
Acrobat Reader, but nowhere else. I can also attach the resulting PDF I get on
my system if necessary.

I should note that the attachment is a DocBook 4.2 XML file.

How are you invoking Acrobat Reader?  Under Linux?  If so, did you try 'LANG=C
acroread ...'?

Yes, regardless of how I invoke acroread, whether from the command line changing
the LANG or not changing the LANG it makes no difference.

The only thing that shows up with the "A0fotex are the chapter titles.

Hrm, I just thought of one thing though, could fonts have *anything* to do with
it? I have installed the Bitstream Vera fonts, and the MS Web Fonts. That's the
only other thing I can think of.

Yes, I'm sorry I forgot to mention that I do run it under Linux. I could try a
Windows system to see if it does the same thing.

I just tried viewing the PDF I generated on a Windows system, same Textual
Garbage appears there as well. So, I assume that it's in the pdf output itself
that was generated by passivetex.

Red Hat apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We do want to
make sure that no important bugs slip through the cracks.

Red Hat Linux 7.3 and Red Hat Linux 9 are no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc.
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security issue, please change the product as necessary. We thank you for your
help, and apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point.

Red Hat Linux 7.3 and Red Hat Linux 9 are no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc.
f you are currently still running Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 9, you are strongly
advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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Closing as CANTFIX.