Circle is missing in the output when converting from pdf

[scrouthtv]

Hello,

I'm trying to convert circuit drawings created with circuitikz to svg. However, the output is missing some things.

Compiling this tex:

\documentclass[margin = 24mm]{standalone}

\usepackage{xcolor, circuitikz}

\begin{document}
	\begin{circuitikz}
		\draw (0, 0) to [short, o-*] (1, 0);
	\end{circuitikz}
\end{document}

gives me this pdf:

(notice the empty and filled circle on the end of the line)

If I convert this to svg using

dvisvgm --pdf circle.pdf

I get a line with no tips:

However, if I first convert the pdf to ps using poppler, and then convert the ps to svg:

pdftops circle.pdf
dvisvgm --eps circle.ps

I wasn't able to figure out, how exactly the *-o is drawn by circuitikz, and normal circles drawn with tikz work as expected.

Thanks for any help in advance.

[mgieseki]

Unfortunately, I can't reproduce the issue. The file converts correctly with the latest version.
What version of dvisvgm and Ghostscript do you use? Could you post the output of dvisvgm -V1?

[scrouthtv]

dvisvgm 2.9.1
-------------
brotli:      1.0.7
clipper:     6.2.1
fontforge:   20160721
freetype:    2.10.4
Ghostscript: 95.33
kpathsea:    6.3.2
potrace:     1.16
xxhash:      0.7.3
zlib:        1.2.11

[scrouthtv]

Oh wow, my dvisvgm version is heavily outdated. It came preinstalled with my distribution's TexLive package, I'll look into it.

[mgieseki]

Ok, thanks. This is the same issue as in #139. It's related to changes introduced with Ghostscript 9.52 which dvisvgm 2.9.1 doesn't support. It was fixed in 2.10. You could either update to a newer release of dvisvgm if possible, or install an older version of Ghostscript alongside the recent one.

[scrouthtv]

Thanks for the quick help!

[mgieseki]

You're welcome. Feel free to report any further issues.

[scrouthtv]

Do you, by any chance, know, when the update will make it's way to TexLive? I just installed TL from upstream and still only got dvisvgm 2.9.1.

EDIT: I guess with the release of TL 2021

[mgieseki]

Yes, TL updates the binaries only once a year with each big release. Only packages that don't require individual builds for all supported target platforms get intermediate updates. More recent versions of programs like dvisvgm normally have to be rebuilt by the users themselves.