convert docx to pdf creates a document which display all []

[fdong]

I need help.

After spent many days of struggling, finally I built libreoffcie-4.4.0.3 on
Arch linux. I built it without X enabled so I can't use the UI to see is
anything wrong apparently.

I run the command line on new built software: soffice --headless
--convert-to pdf my.docx 
(here my.docx is a regular English document with size 19K) 

my.pdf has been created successfully. but the display in Adobe Reader looks
strange: The structure of pdf resembles original docx format. but all
characters in pdf are display as [], in Adobe Reader. 

I used an online tool which claims to extract text from pdf file. I got back
space plus FFFFFFFFFF...

I did the compare with the result from running the same command against
libreoffice installed on Mac. Here is the summary: 

                                                    Original file size
(.docx)        size of pdf after convert (.pdf) 
using software built on linux box:       19K                                         
8.5K 
using software installed on Mac:         19K                                         
98K 

I did further testing:
1. convert docx to txt or html, there is no issue
2. create a txt document which contains one character, after convert to pdf
file. The display is a single []

I used pacman to install required libraries first. and build libreoffice.

Following is the options in command line:
--without-java
                --disable-cups
                --with-doxygen=no
                --with-build-version="${_LOver} Arch Linux build-${pkgrel}"
--with-vendor="Arch Linux"
                --prefix=/usr
                --exec-prefix=/usr
                --sysconfdir=/etc
                --libdir=/usr/lib
                --mandir=/usr/share/man
          		--enable-split-app-modules
          		--with-parallelism=${MAKEFLAGS/-j/}
          		--with-system-openssl
          		--disable-fetch-external
          		--enable-verbose
          		--enable-debug
          		--disable-release-build
          		--enable-crashdump
          		--disable-coinmp
          		--disable-avahi
          		--disable-dbus
          		--disable-evolution2
          		--disable-gio
          		--disable-gnome-vfs
          		--disable-lockdown
          		--disable-odk
          		--disable-orcus
          		--enable-python=system
          		--disable-scripting-javascript
          		--disable-telepathy
          		--enable-ext-nlpsolver=no
          		--without-fonts
          		--with-system-apr
          		--with-myspell-dicts
          		--with-system-libcmis
          		--with-system-libexttextcat
          		--with-system-orcus
          		--with-system-liblangtag
          		--with-system-jfreereport
          		--without-system-apache-commons
          		--with-system-libatomic-ops
          		--with-system-dicts
          		--with-system-graphite
          		--with-system-glm
          		--with-system-redland
          		--with-system-serf
          		--without-system-npapi-headers
          		--without-system-libgltf
          		--with-system-poppler
          		--without-system-sane
          		--with-system-boost
          		--with-system-icu
          		--with-system-cairo
          		--with-system-libs
          		--with-system-mythes
          		--with-system-headers
          		--with-system-hsqldb
          		--with-alloc=system
          		--with-system-clucene
          		--with-system-jpeg
          		--with-system-lcms2
          		--with-system-nss
                --without-krb5
                --with-gssapi
                --with-system-vigra
                --with-system-odbc
                --disable-gconf
                --disable-liblangtag
                --with-system-liblangtag
                --disable-postgresql-sdbc
                --disable-firebird-sdbc
                --with-system-clucene
                --with-system-libebook
                --with-system-libetonyek
                --with-system-libfreehand
                --with-system-libcdr
                --with-system-harfbuzz
           		--disable-dependency-tracking
           		--disable-gltf
           		--disable-gtk
           		--disable-gstreamer-1-0
                --disable-gstreamer-0-10
          		--enable-hardlink-deliver

Any idea how this happened or how to debug the issue (which module ? Is
vcl/source/gdi/pdfwriter_impl.cxx the correct place to look at it?).
 
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