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KevinH · 07-21-2023, 04:43 PM

Sorry, I realized that the build I have been testing with is a Qt6.5.1 arm64 build and the pdf stuff all just works.

Unfortunately, when I tried with the frankenstein Qt 5.15.10 arm64 build I posted for you it is totally broken in regards to pdfs.

If I instead bring over a Qt 5.15.9 build of Sigil using x86_64 and run it under Rossetta 2 on my arm64 Mac then pdfs work perfectly.

So native Qt 5.15 is just broken on arm64 Mac.

So when it is time for the upcoming release, I am going to be posting experimental Sigil and PageEdit builds using Qt 6.5.1. Users of arm64 Macs can choose to use them or simply run Sigil under Rossetta 2 as they have been doing all along.

Thanks for testing and reporting back.

07-21-2023, 04:43 PM	#19
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 8,937 Karma: 6361444 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Sorry, I realized that the build I have been testing with is a Qt6.5.1 arm64 build and the pdf stuff all just works. Unfortunately, when I tried with the frankenstein Qt 5.15.10 arm64 build I posted for you it is totally broken in regards to pdfs. If I instead bring over a Qt 5.15.9 build of Sigil using x86_64 and run it under Rossetta 2 on my arm64 Mac then pdfs work perfectly. So native Qt 5.15 is just broken on arm64 Mac. So when it is time for the upcoming release, I am going to be posting experimental Sigil and PageEdit builds using Qt 6.5.1. Users of arm64 Macs can choose to use them or simply run Sigil under Rossetta 2 as they have been doing all along. Thanks for testing and reporting back. Last edited by KevinH; 07-21-2023 at 05:08 PM.