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MacOSX-TeX Digest #139 - Tuesday, October 30, 2001
Acrobat 5 no menu bar, no dock
by "Gerben Wierda"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Acrobat 5 no menu bar, no dock
by "Michael Murray"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Acrobat 5 no menu bar, no dock
by "Gerben Wierda"
latex 2 html
by "Hemant Bhargava"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] latex 2 html
by "Michael Goldweber"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] small dots disappear in Quartz
by "Troy Goodson"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Acrobat 5 no menu bar, no dock
by "Michael Murray"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] small dots disappear in Quartz
by "Ross Moore"
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Subject: Acrobat 5 no menu bar, no dock
From: "Gerben Wierda"
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 14:00:05 +0100
On Monday, October 29, 2001, at 10:32 , Michael Murray wrote:
> After some experimenting it seems that if you set Acrobat to continuous
> display
> (under view menu) and use the left and right arrows transitions work
> without flashing. If you set
> it to single page then you get the flashing.
>
> Strange but at least usable :-)
Only if you actually have a menu. I have a pdf file that opens and the
menu bar is gone. It is not full screen but in a window. Minimize that
window and the dock stays gone and cannot be retrieved, unless you
switch to another application.
Try it: ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/macosx/presentation.pdf
Definitely a bug in 10.1, but maybe related to me running on UFS?
G
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Acrobat 5 no menu bar, no dock
From: "Michael Murray"
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 23:46:19 +1030
>On Monday, October 29, 2001, at 10:32 , Michael Murray wrote:
>
>>After some experimenting it seems that if you set Acrobat to
>>continuous display
>>(under view menu) and use the left and right arrows transitions
>>work without flashing. If you set
>>it to single page then you get the flashing.
>>
>>Strange but at least usable :-)
>
>Only if you actually have a menu. I have a pdf file that opens and
>the menu bar is gone. It is not full screen but in a window.
>Minimize that window and the dock stays gone and cannot be
>retrieved, unless you switch to another application.
>
>Try it: ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/macosx/presentation.pdf
>
>Definitely a bug in 10.1, but maybe related to me running on UFS?
>
>G
>
On my mac - not using UFS - that file only flashes if I do command
L and go to full screen. Or press the full screen button you have
provided. If I do F9 and get the menu back and then
toggle continuous / single sheet there is no flash in either.
What did you prepare this with ?
Michael
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Acrobat 5 no menu bar, no dock
From: "Gerben Wierda"
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 14:36:56 +0100
On Tuesday, October 30, 2001, at 02:16 , Michael Murray wrote:
> On my mac - not using UFS - that file only flashes if I do command
> L and go to full screen. Or press the full screen button you have
> provided. If I do F9 and get the menu back and then
> toggle continuous / single sheet there is no flash in either.
F9! Thanks! How did you know that?
> What did you prepare this with ?
pdflatex, using texpower and pdfscreen.
G
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Subject: latex 2 html
From: "Hemant Bhargava"
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 10:33:28 -0500
Hi -
Has anyone installed latex2html (or alternatives) on OSX? Does it work
well, or do you prefer other alternatives for generating html documents
(that support math, graphics).
- Hemant Bhargava
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] latex 2 html
From: "Michael Goldweber"
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 10:55:51 -0500
>Hi -
>
>Has anyone installed latex2html (or alternatives) on OSX? Does it
>work well, or do you prefer other alternatives for generating html
>documents (that support math, graphics).
I have been successful with tth under OSX. One can either compile
the soure and place it in /usr/local/bin or use the version of tth
(which supports drag and drop) that comes with OzTeX.
Having used both latex2html and tth, I have been much happier with
tth. (Neither does math satisfactorily.) Of course the TeXExplorer
notion of a tex aware plugin seems the wisest to me.
mikeyg
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] small dots disappear in Quartz
From: "Troy Goodson"
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 08:19:47 -0800
At 9:54 AM +1100 10/30/01, Ross Moore wrote:
>Are the dots clean squares of pixels, or are they anti-aliased?
I'm not quite sure what you're getting at... When I increase the
scaling in Preview.app, I can eventually see that there are a bunch
of small, overlapping circles; but definitely circles.
>If the former, then try using Ghostscript to render the image,
>with anti-aliasing on for graphics primitives (not just for fonts)
> --- there is a setting GRAPH_ALPHA_BITS , I think.
>When you've got that working, use Ghostscript to write the image as
>PDF (e.g. with a modification to the epstopdf Perl script) and try
>viewing this in Acrobat.
We've just left my sphere of knowledge surrounding Ghostscript. If
you or someone else can tell me what to type into gs or some such, I
can handle that.
I have viewed this PDF with Acrobat Reader 5 in OS X and it
_does_not_ exhibit this problem. I can reduce the scale down to
about 0.08 and I still see the blue blob.
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Acrobat 5 no menu bar, no dock
From: "Michael Murray"
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 07:48:11 +1030
>On Tuesday, October 30, 2001, at 02:16 , Michael Murray wrote:
>
>>On my mac - not using UFS - that file only flashes if I do command
>>L and go to full screen. Or press the full screen button you have
>>provided. If I do F9 and get the menu back and then
>>toggle continuous / single sheet there is no flash in either.
>
>F9! Thanks! How did you know that?
On my copy of Acrobat 5 under Window the Hide Menu Bar option has
F9 next to it. Similarly the Hide Toolbars is F8
>
>>What did you prepare this with ?
>
>pdflatex, using texpower and pdfscreen.
>
>G
>
Thanks - Michael
--
_________________________________________________________
Assoc/Prof Michael Murray =
Department of Pure Mathematics Fax: 61+ 8 8303
3696
University of Adelaide Phone: 61+ 8 8303 4174
Australia 5005 Email: mmurray@maths.adelaide.edu.au
Home Page: http://www.maths.adelaide.edu.au/pure/mmurray
PGP public key:
http://www.maths.adelaide.edu.au/pure/mmurray/pgp.txt
_________________________________________________________
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] small dots disappear in Quartz
From: "Ross Moore"
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 10:56:47 +1100 (EST)
Hi Troy,
> At 9:54 AM +1100 10/30/01, Ross Moore wrote:
> >Are the dots clean squares of pixels, or are they anti-aliased?
>
> I'm not quite sure what you're getting at... When I increase the
> scaling in Preview.app, I can eventually see that there are a bunch
> of small, overlapping circles; but definitely circles.
Can you send me the image please, or a URL where I can download it.
I'd like to tinker a bit.
> >If the former, then try using Ghostscript to render the image,
> >with anti-aliasing on for graphics primitives (not just for fonts)
> > --- there is a setting GRAPH_ALPHA_BITS , I think.
> >When you've got that working, use Ghostscript to write the image as
> >PDF (e.g. with a modification to the epstopdf Perl script) and try
> >viewing this in Acrobat.
>
> We've just left my sphere of knowledge surrounding Ghostscript. If
> you or someone else can tell me what to type into gs or some such, I
> can handle that.
:-) Let me try first.
> I have viewed this PDF with Acrobat Reader 5 in OS X and it
> _does_not_ exhibit this problem. I can reduce the scale down to
> about 0.08 and I still see the blue blob.
OK; this sounds like the problem is with Apple's viewer then.
Perhaps a feature ?
Cheers,
Ross
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