Ugly rendering of the output visualization of TeXworks

[SSebastiano]

Bug description: bad rendering with recent version of TeXworks 0.8.3.

Steps to reproduce the problem:

1. Compile a .tex file using TikZ syntax with TeXworks 0.8.3.

Expected behavior: A non clear output with the white vertical line, with the strange borders.

General information: TeXworks version: 0.8.3. TeXworks obtained from: MikTeX of 2024-01-27 Operating system: Windows 1o

Additional information: See the website at https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/707606/ugly-rendering-of-the-output-visualization-of-texworks

[stloeffler]

Thanks for reporting. I do have a few questions/comments:

1. There is no version 0.8.3 of TeXworks (yet). Do you mean 0.6.8?
2. TeXworks uses the poppler library for rendering, so it might depend on which poppler version was used for building
3. Does the problem persist when using the latest development version?

[SSebastiano]

Hi. I have written a wrong number:

1. the version is 0.6.8 of TeXworks (updated 2024-1-28 on my laptop). After I will change the number in the TeXworks issue on github.

2. I don't know.

3. The problem persist from November-December 2023 (there was always the version 0.6.8 of TeXworks.

I hope the resolution of the problem of rendering of the output done with a LaTeX code.

My best regards.

Sebastiano

Il 31/01/2024 22:38 CET Stefan Löffler @.***> ha scritto:

Thanks for reporting. I do have a few questions/comments:

1. There is no version 0.8.3 of TeXworks (yet). Do you mean 0.6.8?
2. TeXworks uses the poppler library for rendering, so it might depend on which poppler version was used for building
3. Does the problem persist when using the latest development version https://nightly.link/TeXworks/texworks/workflows/cd/main/TeXworks-Windows10?

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[stloeffler]

Thanks for clarifying. Still, could you please test the latest development build (as linked above, not distributed by MikTeX yet), which should show 0.7 as (preliminary) version number? It should be no problem having the two versions side by side (in fact, please don't overwrite the MikTeX TeXworks binary as that probably has some other MikTeX-specific modifications).

[matteofg]

It's possible to get the latest development version for macos?

[SSebastiano]

@stloeffler Dear Stefan Löffler I read your comment carefully. I have not tested version 0.7 at the link because I have feared to cause the damage in the distribution of MikTeX which works just fine and because I would not like to create two separate TeXworks between them. I, at this point, am waiting for the MikTeX developers to upgrade the version of TeXworks from 0.6.8 to 0.7. I wish you the best. Regards and I hope as soon as possible that the problem will be solved. I await your news update.

[stloeffler]

@matteofg Yes, there's mac versions as well. Please have a look at https://www.tug.org/texworks/#Online_resources @SSebastiano I fully understand. As I wrote, there should be no harm in having two different versions (just don't overwrite your old one), but of course there's always a potential risk. The MikTeX devs likely won't adopt the current 0.7 development version, but rather the next stable release (which will be called 0.6.9 - and be based on the current 0.7 version) when it releases.

[SSebastiano]

@stloeffler Very kind Stefan Löffler we know that MiKTeX is development by Christian Schenk. Who will notify him that the version that version 0.6.8 of TeXworks has problems and that version 0.6.9 needs to be released at the next update of MikTeX?

[SSebastiano]

@stloeffler Here there is my issue done on MikTeX related to TeXworks: https://github.com/MiKTeX/miktex/issues/1435

[stloeffler]

I will notify distributors (including MiKTeX devs) routinely whenever a new version of TeXworks is released.

From your links (the StackExchange post and the MiKTeX issue), it seems to me that this problem appeared recently. If so, this is likely not (directly) a bug in the TeXworks code, as the 0.6.8 release is about a year old by now and has not received any patches in that time. As I speculated above, the problem may be related to an updated build with different (newer) libraries - in particular the poppler library used for rendering pdfs - but without knowing exactly which versions of which libraries are affected and which are not, it will be impossible to further analyze this issue.

[SSebastiano]

@stloeffler Thank you for your precious work and help for me. I will wait the last updated of MikTeX with new version of TeXworks. Best regards.

[SSebastiano]

@stloeffler Hi. Do you have news for new TeXworks. I have always the same bad rendering using TeXworks. What I must doing? My best regards.

[stloeffler]

TeXworks 0.6.9 has recently been released and I have created MiKTeX/miktex#1450. Whether this resolves your issue I don't know, however. IIRC, there were no significant changes to the rendering code from me, but as mentioned above, maybe some library updates will do the trick.

[SSebastiano]

@edocevoli @stloeffler The problem of rendering since 2024-3-19 yet is evident. What is the solution for Christian Schenk? I wait an answer. Bye. Sebastiano

[tbackdahl]

I had the same problem with a clean installation today of MiKTeX on windows 10. TexWorks version 0.6.9. I got rid of the problem by manually replacing AppData\Local\Programs\MiKTeX\miktex\bin\x64\miktex-texworks.exe with the TeXworks.exe downloaded from https://nightly.link/TeXworks/texworks/workflows/cd/main/TeXworks-Windows10 The version is TeXworks-win-0.7.0-202408010314-git_840fd91 This is not a good way to install files in the MiKTeX system, but it helped me for now. I had the same problem with a few older versions too, but I can not tell if it is the version number or who compiled it that made the difference. The corresponding tickets on the MiKTeX github seems to be closed even though the problem persists. Can someone with knowledge check if the MiKTeX team are using the same libraries as you?

[SSebastiano]

@tbackdahl Hi Thomas. Thank you very much for your response and for your help. Reading your post I inform you that I have the same problem after that I have written this post and written to maintainer of MikTeX and of TeXworks. In fact the version of TeXworks 0.6.9 has been changed after my problem and on my suggestion. Yet I not understood the reason my request has been closed. Please, can you can something to reopen my post? I not know someone with knowledges on libraries of the MiKTeX team. Best regards from Sicily.

[SSebastiano]

@edocevoli Good morning. Please can you reopen my request? The problem persist yet. Regards.