<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>I just tried to replicate the error to provide the extra information you requested and ... I don't know why but now everything is OK. I'm pretty sure that for few days I could not produce pdfs with gnuplot. I don't know if the problem could be connected to other packages that I could have been upgraded inthe meanwhile.</div><div><br></div><div>But I'm getting old (I celebrated the thirty years of gnu/linux and the 25 years with Debian last year) and maybe my brain experiences some blackout.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm really sorry.</div><div><br></div><div>In case I meet the problem again, I'll let you know.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for maintaining free software and supporting Debian</div><div><br></div><div>Alberto</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 26, 2026 at 4:36 PM Dima Kogan <<a href="mailto:dima@secretsauce.net">dima@secretsauce.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
I've made pdf plots with the version of gnuplot countless times, and it<br>
has consistently worked. Can you provide some more information to help<br>
isolate this problem?<br>
<br>
Are you seeing failures with all gnuplot scripts, or just some of them?<br>
If just some of them, can you provide the script?<br>
<br>
When you got an invalid pdf file, what did it contain? Can you attach<br>
it?<br>
<br>
Looks like you're running Debian/testing or unstable. Can you look<br>
through your package logs to see if things changed? /var/log/dpkg.log*<br>
<br>
What's the version of your cairo libraries? dpkg -l '*cairo*' | grep '^ii'<br>
<br>
Can you confirm that you didn't "sudo make install" anything that might<br>
be inadvertently used? And that you don't have extra PATH or<br>
LD_LIBRARY_PATH?<br>
<br>
Anything to allow us to reproduce this problem would help.<br>
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