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MacOSX-TeX Digest #449 - Wednesday, October 9, 2002
Re: [OS X TeX] Ruler in TexShop
by "J=E9r=F4me Laurens"
TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
by "tom"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
by "Raymond Brock"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
by "Bruno Voisin"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
by "William Adams"
Feature of epstopdf (probably normal)
by "Bruno Voisin"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
by "Luis Sequeira"
Re: [OS X TeX] Feature of epstopdf (probably normal)
by "Bruno Voisin"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
by "Bruno Voisin"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
by "David Wagner"
Re: [OS X TeX] Feature of epstopdf (probably normal)
by "Gerben Wierda"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
by "Gerben Wierda"
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Ruler in TexShop
From: "J=E9r=F4me Laurens"
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 15:02:20 +0200
Le mardi, 8 oct 2002, =E0 18:20 Europe/Zurich, Lawrence Armstrong a =
=E9crit=20
:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to know if anyone has succeeded in modifying the initial=20=
> ruler in TexShop... It appears that is has a given number and=20
> positions of Tab Stops (you can see when doing command-R) that don't=20=
> cover the all line. I would like to set once for all a distribution of=20=
> those Tab Stops without having to set them at each new document (it=20
> doen't work when changing the ruler and quitting)... It must be=20
> somewhere in some *.plist files but I can't find where...
>
> Has anyone deal with this problem ?
>
customizable tabs are not implemented in TeXShop, no persistence of the=20=
ruler settings/actions
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Subject: TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
From: "tom"
Date: 9 Oct 2002 11:53:06 -0400
Since upgrading to 10.2 TexShop no longer opens .ps files. I double click
on a .ps, TeXShop opens, but nothing happens. I'm using the latest teTeX
and TeXShop versions. TIA for any suggestions....
Tom
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
From: "Raymond Brock"
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 12:05:40 -0400
HI
I though it was just me!! This is actually a persistent problem with
the mac platform as far as I've experienced. I get ps files all the
time in email and from the web and opening them is always a struggle.
It got better with OSX, then as you note, kinda broke with OS10.2 after
some relief with TeXShop. In OS9, the very expensive Tailor was very
useful, but TeXShop really seemed the neatest thing.
Ideas would _really_ be welcome on this general subject.
thanks,
Ray
On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 11:53 AM, tom wrote:
> Since upgrading to 10.2 TexShop no longer opens .ps files. I double
> click
> on a .ps, TeXShop opens, but nothing happens. I'm using the latest
> teTeX
> and TeXShop versions. TIA for any suggestions....
>
> Tom
>
>
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
From: "Bruno Voisin"
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 18:11:39 +0200
Le mercredi, 9 oct 2002, =E0 17:53 Europe/Paris, tom a =E9crit :
> Since upgrading to 10.2 TexShop no longer opens .ps files. I double=20
> click
> on a .ps, TeXShop opens, but nothing happens. I'm using the latest=20
> teTeX
> and TeXShop versions. TIA for any suggestions....
Yes this has been reported several times, for both .ps and .eps files.=20=
It might depend on the user's specific setup, as some people say either:
- that things work as before; or
- that dragging files onto TeXShop doesn't work, but that contextual=20
menus work (i.e., in the Finder control-click a .ps file and select=20
"Open with..." then TeXShop); or
- that nothing works.
I belong to the third class of users. Fortunately, command-line tools=20
still work: in a terminal window, you can still type:
- "ps2pdf13 filename.ps" for .ps files, and
- "epstopdf filename.eps" for .eps files.
Make sure that you use ps2pdf13 instead of ps2pdf (which calls ps2pdf12=20=
implicitly), in case you installed GhostScript 7 instead of GhostScript=20=
6.
Good luck,
Bruno Voisin
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
From: "William Adams"
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 22:59:32 -0400
Ray said:
>I though it was just me!! This is actually a persistent problem with
>the mac platform as far as I've experienced. I get ps files all the
>time in email and from the web and opening them is always a struggle.
>It got better with OSX, then as you note, kinda broke with OS10.2 after
>some relief with TeXShop. In OS9, the very expensive Tailor was very
>useful,
Even cooler as Tailor.app in NeXTstep.
>but TeXShop really seemed the neatest thing.
Imagine how cool it'd've been if we'd had Display PostScript and we
could've had all of TeXView.app's functionality out of the box as it were.
>Ideas would _really_ be welcome on this general subject.
GhostScript---there's a Mac (shareware) port of a viewing program, or you
could use X Window
William
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Subject: Feature of epstopdf (probably normal)
From: "Bruno Voisin"
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 18:21:11 +0200
About the script epstopdf, something I just noticed: epstopdf doesn't
accept "." in paths, whereas usual UNIX commands cd etc. do. It might
as well be a feature of GhostScript itself, not epstopdf.
Appended below is an example, pasted from Terminal.app.
Bruno Voisin
[legimc11:Version 2/Article 3.2/matheps-2] applcom% epstopdf
/Users/applcom/Documents/Articles/Article\ 3/Version\ 2/Article\
3.2/matheps-2/psphvevol20.eps
Error: /undefinedfilename in (3/Version)
Operand stack:
Execution stack:
%interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval--
--nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval--
--nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push --nostringval--
--nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
--dict:1048/1123(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:68/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 2
GNU Ghostscript 7.05: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
Broken pipe
[legimc11:Version 2/Article 3.2/matheps-2] applcom% cd
/Users/applcom/Documents/Articles/Article\ 3/Version\ 2/Article\
3.2/matheps-2
[legimc11:Version 2/Article 3.2/matheps-2] applcom% epstopdf
psphvevol20.eps
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
From: "Luis Sequeira"
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 17:21:20 +0100
>HI
>I though it was just me!! This is actually a persistent problem with
>the mac platform as far as I've experienced. I get ps files all the
>time in email and from the web and opening them is always a
>struggle. It got better with OSX, then as you note, kinda broke with
>OS10.2 after some relief with TeXShop. In OS9, the very expensive
>Tailor was very useful, but TeXShop really seemed the neatest thing.
>
>Ideas would _really_ be welcome on this general subject.
>
>thanks,
>Ray
>
>On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 11:53 AM, tom wrote:
>
>>Since upgrading to 10.2 TexShop no longer opens .ps files. I double =
click
>>on a .ps, TeXShop opens, but nothing happens. I'm using the latest teTeX
>>and TeXShop versions. TIA for any suggestions....
>>
>>Tom
>>
Works for me. I installed Jaguar and almost immediately installed the
10.2.1 upgrade, so I cannot say for sure, but maybe 10.2.1 fixed it.
I am using TeXShop 1.20.
Luis
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Feature of epstopdf (probably normal)
From: "Bruno Voisin"
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 18:25:41 +0200
Sorry, I sent my latest message too quickly: I did another test, it's
not the dot "." but the space " " in paths, which is confusing epstopdf.
Bruno Voisin
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
From: "Bruno Voisin"
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 18:37:21 +0200
Le mercredi, 9 oct 2002, =E0 18:21 Europe/Paris, Luis Sequeira a =E9crit =
:
> Works for me. I installed Jaguar and almost immediately installed the =20=
> 10.2.1 upgrade, so I cannot say for sure, but maybe 10.2.1 fixed it.
>
> I am using TeXShop 1.20.
I am running the latest TeXShop and teTeX under OS X 10.2.1, and still =20=
I am having this problem. It might be localization-specific, as here is =20=
what Console.app says when I'm dragging an EPS file onto TeXShop:
2002-10-09 18:32:00.905 TeXShop[753] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data =
is not =20
proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
=
/Applications/TeXShop/TeXShop.app/Contents/Resources/French.lproj/=20
Localizable.strings
The parser will retry as in 10.1, but the problem should be =
corrected =20
in the plist.
2002-10-09 18:32:01.595 TeXShop[753] launch path not accessible
But then, the original message on this thread was sent by "tom" =20
, who I suppose is running the American localization, so =20=
I'm quite lost.
Would the problem be cured by erasing some .plist file?
Bruno Voisin=
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
From: "David Wagner"
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 12:20:45 -0500
Until TeXShop/Mac OS X is fixed, you can:
1) download MacGhostViewX from http://www.versiontracker.com (Mac OS X
section)
2) install gv via fink, http://fink.sourceforge.net/news/jag-bootstrap.php
(You will also need XFree86 and ghostscript)
It may be that what is broken in your system is ghostscript. I believe
ghostscript is essential to any screen interpretation of postscript in Mac
OS X.
David Wagner
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Feature of epstopdf (probably normal)
From: "Gerben Wierda"
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 00:58:24 +0200
On Wednesday, Oct 9, 2002, at 18:25 Europe/Amsterdam, Bruno Voisin
wrote:
> Sorry, I sent my latest message too quickly: I did another test, it's
> not the dot "." but the space " " in paths, which is confusing
> epstopdf.
I will fix this as soon as I have time. Distribution may have to wait
until i-Installer v2 is ready for 'release canidate'.
G
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
From: "Gerben Wierda"
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 00:59:46 +0200
On Wednesday, Oct 9, 2002, at 19:20 Europe/Amsterdam, David Wagner
wrote:
> It may be that what is broken in your system is ghostscript. I believe
> ghostscript is essential to any screen interpretation of postscript in
> Mac
> OS X.
PStill is a good alternative as far as I know.
G
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