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XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.99991 (preloaded format=xelatex 2014.6.19)

(the one shipped with TeX Live 2014) colors text in white in some circumstances: in the following MWE file compiled with xelatex, the "Lorem Ipsum" text after the outer tcolorbox environment on page 2 is colored in white.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{tcolorbox}
%
\tcbuselibrary{breakable}
%
\begin{document}
%
\rule{0.4pt}{17cm}
%
\begin{tcolorbox}[breakable]
  Foo.
  \begin{tcolorbox}
    foo

    foo

    foo

    foo
  \end{tcolorbox}
\end{tcolorbox}
% \color{black}%
\lipsum
\end{document}

It must be noticed that the trouble still arises if the \color{black} is uncommented but doesn't arise:

  • with older xe(la)tex:

    XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-0.9999.3 (format=xelatex 2013.7.9)

    (e.g. the one shipped with TeX Live 2013), even with tcolorbox package shipped with TeX Live 2014 (version 3.05): hence tcolorbox seems to not be responsible of the trouble by itself,

  • if the file is compiled with pdflatex,
  • in the MWE above if the breakable option of the outer tcolorbox environment is dropped.
Denis Bitouzé
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    The inner tcolorbox is not needed. A \lipsum[1] instead shows the problem too. The problem seems to be with xdvipdfmx (which is newer in TL14 than in miktex). If I compile a xdv created by TL14 with the xdvipdfmx of miktex the output is fine. Also the color reappears if on use the -c option of xdvipdfmx. I suggest that you make a bug report at tex-k@tug.org. – Ulrike Fischer Jun 23 '14 at 08:53
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    Bug report done. – Denis Bitouzé Jun 23 '14 at 14:52
  • I was not able to reproduce the problem with MiKTeX as you know. But recently I was put to another XeLaTeX related problem which was reproducable with MiKTeX. I think I found a solution which hopefully also solves (or circumvents) your problem. Please, test if the following works on your system: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/193318/using-paracol-with-breakable-box-tcolorbox/193541#193541 – Thomas F. Sturm Jul 28 '14 at 07:17
  • @UlrikeFischer Maybe, you are also interested in http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/193318/using-paracol-with-breakable-box-tcolorbox/193541#193541 I have some hopes that this also works with TeXLive but I have no system with it. – Thomas F. Sturm Jul 28 '14 at 07:21

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read below text (form: http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2014-June/025331.html)

I have confirmed that, in the case of dvipdfmx,

\documentclass[dvipdfm]{article} is ok, but \documentclass[dvipdfmx]{article} is ng.

Therefore the bug may be in dvipdfmx.def and xetex.def.

However, latex --> dvi --> dvipdfmx --> pdf for

\documentclass[dvipdfmx]{article}
\def\pgfsysdriver{pgfsys-dvipdfm.def}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{tcolorbox}
\tcbuselibrary{breakable}
\begin{document}
%
\rule{0.4pt}{17cm}
%
\begin{tcolorbox}[breakable]
\lipsum[1]
\end{tcolorbox}
\lipsum
\end{document}

and xelatex for

\documentclass{article}
\def\pgfsysdriver{pgfsys-dvipdfm.def}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{tcolorbox}
\tcbuselibrary{breakable}
\begin{document}
%
\rule{0.4pt}{17cm}
%
\begin{tcolorbox}[breakable]
\lipsum[1]
\end{tcolorbox}
\lipsum
\end{document}

generate good results. Thus problems are in pgfsys-dvipdfmx.def and pgfsys-xetex.def.

Best, Akira

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Arastoo Karimi
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The text color implementation of tcolorbox was changed to circumvent another xelatex related color problem. Denis Bitouzé informed me that this also solved the problem of this question. Since I don't use TeX Live I cannot check myself, but, certainly, I trust the OP :-)

So the answer is: Update to tcolorbox version 3.12 (2014/07/29) or newer.

Thomas F. Sturm
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