PDF export is broken

[florianm]

Problem

• https://scienceprojects.dbca.wa.gov.au/pythia/ararreport/11/ > Generate PDF produces a broken PDF.

• 205 attempted to reduce texlive installation, unsuccessful as in past attempts.

• header_scrbook.tex contains some conflicting style settings. It's based on the legrand orange book and has worked earlier.
• Both Dockerfile (installing latex and dependencies) and header are restored to last known working state.
• PDF export still broken.
• Build errors: https://scienceprojects.dbca.wa.gov.au/media/reports/11/arar.log
• Latex source: https://scienceprojects.dbca.wa.gov.au/media/reports/11/arar.tex

Steps

• Download https://scienceprojects.dbca.wa.gov.au/media/reports/11/arar.tex
• Have a local latex installation and IDE ready
• Modify the header (first 200-odd lines of tex source) until the tex builds using lualatex. Simple, right?
• package tocstyle is deprecated, replace.
• The .tex templates producing the latex source have not been modified and should not be source of breakage.
• Very minor chance that some content could break the PDF (happened in the past). Test with first chapter / table etc only.

[florianm]

Findings so far:

• Annual report builds locally with a copy of older production data.
• Dockerfile (used in prod/uat): added texlive-fonts-recommended to provide a missing latex package
• Annual report builds with minimal content but produces broken PDF when run on whole content (minus tables)

The goal is to make the annual report build by chasing down invalid content:

• https://scienceprojects.dbca.wa.gov.au/pythia/ararreport/11/ > Generate PDF
• Inspect log file https://scienceprojects.dbca.wa.gov.au/media/reports/11/arar.log
• Inspect tex source file https://scienceprojects.dbca.wa.gov.au/media/reports/11/arar.tex (download, compile, inspect errors, find broken content, fix in SPMS prod)

Status:

• v5.0.16 builds a valid annual report PDF minus tables.
• v5.1.0 builds entire annual report. Tables are built using a different package and could possibly require more layout tuning.

Last challenge: The Docker image supplies texlive 2018, missing tabularray.sty. Place tabularray.sty where the latex template can find it. Alternatively, find a Docker image with Python 2.7 AND texlive 2022 as a new base image.

[florianm]

Fixed in v5.1.13. Phew! That one was the second worst bug in SDIS I've seen.