Arch Linux

Description:
Using dvipdf in Version 9.50 produces – contrary to earlier uses – blank pdf files. The dvipdf manpage describes what the program is doing „in the background“. Manually repeating those steps produces *proper* pdf files. Steps to reproduce the bug as well as the expected behavior are given below. Installed latex suite is the group texlive-most.

Additional info:
dvipdf: 9.50
dvips: dvips(k) 5.999 Copyright 2019 Radical Eye Software
ghostscript: GPL Ghostscript 9.50 (2019-10-15)
latex: pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.20 (TeX Live 2019/Arch Linux) (preloaded format=latex)

Steps to reproduce:

––– Minimal latex file (main.tex) –––
\documentclass[]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[5]
\end{document}

––– Steps to reproduce –––
$ latex main.tex
$ latex main.tex # produces main.dvi file which has text
$ dvipdf main.dvi # produces blank main.pdf file without any visible content

––– Steps to produce expected behavior –––
$ latex main.tex
$ latex main.tex
$ dvips -q main.dvi # produces main.ps file
$ gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=main.pdf main.ps # produces expected pdf file (main.pdf)