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MacOSX-TeX Digest #187 - Friday, December 21, 2001
TeXGSServices.app eating 90% CPU
by "Gerben Wierda"
New TeXGSServices.app
by "Gerben Wierda"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Re: OzTeX configs in TeXShop?
by "G=E9rard Degrez"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Landscape view in TeXShop
by "Emilio Faro"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Landscape view in TeXShop
by "Troy D Goodson"
TeX fonts and Illustrator 10
by "Alessio Guglielmi"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] TeX fonts and Illustrator 10
by "William Adams"
Acrobat Reader 5.05
by "Michael Murray"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] TeX fonts and Illustrator 10
by "Siep"
Q: 2 byte language support
by
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] TeX fonts and Illustrator 10
by "William Adams"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] TeX fonts and Illustrator 10
by "Gerben Wierda"
Services (was Re: [Mac OS X TeX] TeX fonts and Illustrator 10)
by "William Adams"
Knots and Links with LaTeX and TeXShop
by "Jerome Dubois"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Knots and Links with LaTeX and TeXShop
by "Ross Moore"
TeXGS instructions for install
by "get86"
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Subject: TeXGSServices.app eating 90% CPU
From: "Gerben Wierda"
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 12:38:13 +0100
The current TeXGSServices eats 90% CPU doing nothing (but a lot of it
apparently ;-). It is wise to kill tha app after you have done your tex
to pdf processing and you do not need it for a while.
The error is in the example code from Apple that I use (the example app
has the same behaviour), but I still need to track it down.
G
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Subject: New TeXGSServices.app
From: "Gerben Wierda"
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 14:32:44 +0100
I tracked the problem down. It turns out there is another nasty bug in
Apple's example code project Moriarity (a good exampl eof spaghetti OO
code if there ever was one, but educational nonetheless...). Users of
the simple service, please download
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/macosx/tex-gs/GWTeXServices-0.1.dmg.gz
Yours,
G
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Re: OzTeX configs in TeXShop?
From: "G=E9rard Degrez"
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 14:35:08 +0100
>On Wednesday, December 19, 2001, at 11:31 , G=E9rard Degrez wrote:
>
>>Oops, I just tried to check before sending the mail, it seems that
>>this no longer works (no ls-R database was generated for the
>>$HOMETEXMF tree. In addition, my previous ls-R has disappeared!). I
>>remember clearly it worked with my previous version of TeXShop/teTeX.
>>Is this a feature?
>
>Yes. There have been requests for this. It means that a standard
>distribution will work for ordinary users without them ever having
>to go to the Terminal to run a command (like texhash). I have
>described in another message how to turns this on again.
Yes. I've seen that. But I found out that this is not enough. One
also has to change the environment variable TEXMFDBS
% Where to look for ls-R files. There need not be an ls-R in the
% directories in this path, but if there is one, Kpathsea will use it.
% This is default set to TEXMF+VARTEXFONTS but without HOMETEXMF
TEXMFDBS =3D $HOMETEXMF;$TEXMFLOCAL;$TEXMFOS;$TEXMFMAIN;$VARTEXFONTS
^^^^^^^^^^^
to be added
>
>If your tree is small, there is no reason to use texhash.
It is large... (packages,fonts,...)
Thanks very much to you and to all people involved in the development
of TeXShop, it's really a nice TeX implementation.
G=E9rard Degrez
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Landscape view in TeXShop
From: "Emilio Faro"
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 18:10:41 +0100
Help!
I still have not been able to figure out how to set the typeset window of=
TeXShop to landscape mode. Is it possible? My use of TeXShop is greately=
impaired by this difficulty.
Any help would be welcome.
Emilio
Emilio Faro wrote:
> I am new to Mac OS X and TeXShop, and probably this is a dumb question,=
> but I am not capable of setting the typeset window (.pdf) of TeXShop to=
> landscape mode. When this window is active, the File/Page Setup... menu=
> item is dimmed. ...?? In the source window I can do a page setup, but i=
t
> doesn't make any difference for the typeset window. I can't see the ful=
l
> spread of my landscape-set document (I manually set the dimensions of
> the printed text in the document source).
>
> Emilio
>
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Landscape view in TeXShop
From: "Troy D Goodson"
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 09:20:56 -0800
Emilio,
As far as I know you can't do this. It's a problem for me, too. I have=20=
to keep Acrobat Reader 5.0 running for such things.
You may also note that landscape printing doesn't work correctly from=20
TeXShop (at least it didn't in the version I was using about a month=20
ago).
Troy.
On Thursday, December 20, 2001, at 09:10 AM, Emilio Faro wrote:
> Help!
> I still have not been able to figure out how to set the typeset window=20=
> of
> TeXShop to landscape mode. Is it possible? My use of TeXShop is=20
> greately
> impaired by this difficulty.
> Any help would be welcome.
>
> Emilio
>
> Emilio Faro wrote:
>
>> I am new to Mac OS X and TeXShop, and probably this is a dumb =
question,
>> but I am not capable of setting the typeset window (.pdf) of TeXShop =
to
>> landscape mode. When this window is active, the File/Page Setup... =
menu
>> item is dimmed. ...?? In the source window I can do a page setup, but=20=
>> it
>> doesn't make any difference for the typeset window. I can't see the=20=
>> full
>> spread of my landscape-set document (I manually set the dimensions of
>> the printed text in the document source).
>>
>> Emilio
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------
>> Departamento de Matem=E1tica Aplicada
>> Universidad de Vigo
>> Vigo
>> Spain
>> ------------------------------------------------
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Subject: TeX fonts and Illustrator 10
From: "Alessio Guglielmi"
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 00:51:45 +0100
Hello,
I know that there are problems in making Illustrator work with TeX
Type 1 fonts. I wasn't able to find a solution, though.
The problem is simply stated, I have working Type 1 Computer Modern
fonts installed in Mac OS X, they work everywhere else, but
Illustrator 10 is unable to import EPS files and show the fonts.
Any help is appreciated, thanks!
-Alessio
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Department of Computer Science - Dresden University of Technology
Hans-Grundig-Str. 25 fax +49 (351) 463 8342
D-01062 Dresden - Germany
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] TeX fonts and Illustrator 10
From: "William Adams"
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:22:01 -0500
My suggestion here would be to lose AI 10, get Stone Design's Create,
and to use the nifty TeXGSServices.app which Gerben Wierda & co. have
cooked up.
But then, I loathe Illustrator and only use it at last resort at work :(
or home where I've AI 3 on my NeXT Cube), so am not un-biased here.
William
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Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
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Subject: Acrobat Reader 5.05
From: "Michael Murray"
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 22:07:48 +1030
Hi
Acrobat Reader 5.05 is out. It still doesn't seem to display the
page transitions that 4 will display. Anyone know what the story is
with this?
Thanks - Michael
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] TeX fonts and Illustrator 10
From: "Siep"
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 21:43:19 +0100
On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:22:01 -0500
William Adams wrote:
> My suggestion here would be to lose AI 10, get Stone Design's Create,
> and to use the nifty TeXGSServices.app which Gerben Wierda & co. have
> cooked up.
Does Create understand PostScript/pdf Bezier curves? I had a quick look at
it, and as far as I could make out it uses splines instead of Bezier
curves. For me, that would be a major drawback.
Did anybody look at Freehand or CorelDRAW?
Siep
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Subject: Q: 2 byte language support
From:
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 15:34:25 -0500
Dear TeX lovers,
I found that TeXshop is a great program.
But I couldn't compile a text including Korean eventhough I installed =
Korean
fonts and style files. Does TeXshop support 2-byte languages?
If so, how can I run it without errors?
I also run latex in command line and it create a dvi file. But I run dvips =
to print, it seems work fine(it generates fonts well) but it issue an =
error
message "[1] jobs queued, but cannot start daemon." at the final stage. It =
might be a problem in OS. How can I fix it?
Thank you for your help.
Dal
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] TeX fonts and Illustrator 10
From: "William Adams"
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 15:51:48 -0500
Siep asked:
>Does Create understand PostScript/pdf Bezier curves?
Yes. There's a bezier pen tool, and one can draw any path / curve one
needs. Not quite as efficiently as in FH as I've posted here in the past
(though I do appreciate Andrew Stone's adding click-to-close path).
>Did anybody look at Freehand or CorelDRAW?
Both of these are Carbon, and FH doesn't support Services (yet?)---I'd
be very interested if CorelDRAW did (though I still have bad memories
'bout its (previously) miserable PostScript handling and still hold
against Corel the massive font deflation 'caused by their bundling
no-name knock-offs with CD2/3).
William
--
William Adams, publishing specialist
ATLIS Graphics & Design / 717-731-6707 voice / 717-731-6708 fax
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
http://www.atlis.com
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] TeX fonts and Illustrator 10
From: "Gerben Wierda"
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 22:08:40 +0100
On Friday, December 21, 2001, at 08:22 , William Adams wrote:
> My suggestion here would be to lose AI 10, get Stone Design's Create,
> and to use the nifty TeXGSServices.app which Gerben Wierda & co. have
> cooked up.
Very nifty maybe, but it won't work with Create (yet). Omni has been
looking into making OmniGraffle accept PDF paste on text copy though.
G
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Subject: Services (was Re: [Mac OS X TeX] TeX fonts and Illustrator 10)
From: "William Adams"
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 16:45:09 -0500
G said (re: the nifty TeXGSServices.app):
>Very nifty maybe, but it won't work with Create (yet). Omni has been
>looking into making OmniGraffle accept PDF paste on text copy though.
Urk!
Okay, refresh my memory---TeXView.app's TeX eq -> eps Service _does_
work with Altsys Virtuoso, but didn't work with Adobe Illustrator 3.01
(after the NS 3.0 update if memory serves)---did Create not work? I'll
have to try 1.0 at home this weekend to check....
William
--
William Adams, publishing specialist
ATLIS Graphics & Design / 717-731-6707 voice / 717-731-6708 fax
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
http://www.atlis.com
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Subject: Knots and Links with LaTeX and TeXShop
From: "Jerome Dubois"
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 23:18:34 +0100
Is somebody know how to draw knot or braid diagrams with TeXShop ? Of
course I can use pspicture... but it is a little difficult and very very
long for big diagrams...
Thank you for all,
Jerome
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Knots and Links with LaTeX and TeXShop
From: "Ross Moore"
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 09:22:38 +1100 (EST)
> Is somebody know how to draw knot or braid diagrams with TeXShop ? Of
> course I can use pspicture... but it is a little difficult and very very =
> long for big diagrams...
Try Xy-pic.
It has a module for drawing knot pieces and crossings.
There are some examples in its Reference Manual, and
also in The LaTeX Graphics Companion.
Cheers,
Ross Moore
> Thank you for all,
> Jerome
>
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Subject: TeXGS instructions for install
From: "get86"
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 17:50:28 -0500
hope I got the name right -it's the nice new Services item i'm referring =
to:
the instructions say:
/Library/Services
I don't have any Services dir in either /Library or the homedir/Library;
i DO have it in /System/Library/
?
thanks and happy holidays
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