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MacOSX-TeX Digest #450 - Thursday, October 10, 2002
ImageMagick and CM-Super i-Packages (temporarily) removed
by "Gerben Wierda"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
by "Claus Gerhardt"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
by "Claus Gerhardt"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
by "tom keyes"
moving from ps to pdf
by "Eric van der Oord"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
by "Axel E. Retif"
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 "Bruno Voisin"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
by "Axel E. Retif"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
by "J=E9r=F4me Laurens"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
by "Axel E. Retif"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
by "Jean-Claude DE SOZA"
ps2pdf13? (was TeXShop won't open ...)
by "Gary L. Gray"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
by "Bruno Voisin"
Re: [OS X TeX] ps2pdf13? (was TeXShop won't open ...)
by "Bruno Voisin"
Re: [OS X TeX] ps2pdf13? (was TeXShop won't open ...)
by "Gary L. Gray"
Re: [OS X TeX] ps2pdf13? (was TeXShop won't open ...)
by "Bruno Voisin"
Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
by "Lee Phillips"
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Subject: ImageMagick and CM-Super i-Packages (temporarily) removed
From: "Gerben Wierda"
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 02:12:19 +0200
I have removed these i-Packages because I was running out of disk quota
on the machine that hosts them which is the case because I am testing
with a lot of new-style packages.
G
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
From: "Claus Gerhardt"
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 02:35:25 +0200
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Doubleclicking on a .ps file on my system has the effect that TeXShop=3D20
1.20 smoothly converts the file via ghostscript 7.0 to a pdf file,=3D20
ps2pdf12 is being used.
TeXShop, tetex, and ghostscript have been installed well before I=3D20
*upgraded* to OS 10.2 and then to 10.2.1, and I never experienced a =
TeX=3D20=3D
related problem.
The only unusual (manual) routine I stick to is to do each day
sudo sh /etc/daily
though I don't think that this is related to the trouble other people=3D20
have. More likely that upgrading to 10.2 and not doing a "clean=3D20
install" is responsible for the different behaviour.
Claus
On Donnerstag, Oktober 10, 2002, at 12:59 Uhr, Gerben Wierda wrote:
> On Wednesday, Oct 9, 2002, at 19:20 Europe/Amsterdam, David Wagner=3D20
> wrote:
>
>> It may be that what is broken in your system is ghostscript. I=3D20
>> believe
>> ghostscript is essential to any screen interpretation of =
postscript=3D20=3D
>> in Mac
>> OS X.
>
> PStill is a good alternative as far as I know.
>
> G
>
>
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69120 Heidelberg
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Doubleclicking on a .ps file on my system has the effect that TeXShop
1.20 smoothly converts the file via ghostscript 7.0 to a pdf file,
ps2pdf12 is being used.
TeXShop, tetex, and ghostscript have been installed well before I
*upgraded* to OS 10.2 and then to 10.2.1, and I never experienced a
TeX related problem.
The only unusual (manual) routine I stick to is to do each day
sudo sh /etc/daily
though I don't think that this is related to the trouble other people
have. More likely that upgrading to 10.2 and not doing a "clean
install" is responsible for the different behaviour.
Claus
On Donnerstag, Oktober 10, 2002, at 12:59 Uhr, Gerben Wierda wrote:
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.=3D20
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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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
From: "Claus Gerhardt"
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 02:56:00 +0200
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As a follow up, after upgrading to 10.2 I had a major OS problem =
after=3D20=3D
the installation of Internet Explorer 5.2.2 which I resolved by using=3D20
Disk Utility to repair the Disk Permissions which have been totally=3D20
corrupted by the installation process. It might be that a similar=3D20
corruption might have happened when people installed new versions of=3D20
other software like tetex, etc..
Repairing the Disk Permission certainly doesn't do any damage.
Also doing
sudo update_prebinding -root /
which I do occasionally might help.
Claus
On Donnerstag, Oktober 10, 2002, at 02:35 Uhr, Claus Gerhardt wrote:
> Doubleclicking on a .ps file on my system has the effect that =
TeXShop=3D20=3D
> 1.20 smoothly converts the file via ghostscript 7.0 to a pdf file,=3D20
> ps2pdf12 is being used.
>
> TeXShop, tetex, and ghostscript have been installed well before I=3D20
> *upgraded* to OS 10.2 and then to 10.2.1, and I never experienced a=3D20
> TeX related problem.
>
> The only unusual (manual) routine I stick to is to do each day
>
> sudo sh /etc/daily
>
> though I don't think that this is related to the trouble other =
people=3D20=3D
> have. More likely that upgrading to 10.2 and not doing a "clean=3D20
> install" is responsible for the different behaviour.
>
> Claus
>
>
> On Donnerstag, Oktober 10, 2002, at 12:59 Uhr, Gerben Wierda wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday, Oct 9, 2002, at 19:20 Europe/Amsterdam, David Wagner=3D20
>> wrote:
>>
>>> It may be that what is broken in your system is ghostscript. I=3D20
>>> believe
>>> ghostscript is essential to any screen interpretation of =
postscript=3D20=3D
>>> in Mac
>>> OS X.
>>
>> PStill is a good alternative as far as I know.
>>
>> G
>>
>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
>
>
> Claus Gerhardt
> Institut f=3DFCr Angewandte Mathematik
> Ruprecht-Karls-Universit=3DE4t Heidelberg
> Im Neuenheimer Feld 294
> 69120 Heidelberg
> Germany
>
> http://www.math.uni-heidelberg.de/studinfo/gerhardt/
>
Claus Gerhardt
Institut f=3DFCr Angewandte Mathematik
Ruprecht-Karls-Universit=3DE4t Heidelberg
Im Neuenheimer Feld 294
69120 Heidelberg
Germany
http://www.math.uni-heidelberg.de/studinfo/gerhardt/
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As a follow up, after upgrading to 10.2 I had a major OS problem after
the installation of Internet Explorer 5.2.2 which I resolved by using
Disk Utility to repair the Disk Permissions which have been totally
corrupted by the installation process. It might be that a similar
corruption might have happened when people installed new versions of
other software like tetex, etc..
Repairing the Disk Permission certainly doesn't do any damage.
Also doing
sudo update_prebinding -root
/Verdana=3D20
which I do occasionally might
help.
Claus
On Donnerstag, Oktober 10, 2002, at 02:35 Uhr, Claus Gerhardt wrote:
Doubleclicking on a .ps file on my system has the effect that
TeXShop 1.20 smoothly converts the file via ghostscript 7.0 to a pdf
file, ps2pdf12 is being used.
TeXShop, tetex, and ghostscript have been installed well before I
*upgraded* to OS 10.2 and then to 10.2.1, and I never experienced a
TeX related problem.
The only unusual (manual) routine I stick to is to do each day
sudo sh /etc/daily
though I don't think that this is related to the trouble other people
have. More likely that upgrading to 10.2 and not doing a "clean
install" is responsible for the different behaviour.
Claus
On Donnerstag, Oktober 10, 2002, at 12:59 Uhr, Gerben Wierda wrote:
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.=3D20
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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Helvetica
Claus Gerhardt
Institut f=3DFCr Angewandte Mathematik
Ruprecht-Karls-Universit=3DE4t Heidelberg
Im Neuenheimer Feld 294
69120 Heidelberg
Germany
http://www.math.uni-heidelberg.de/studinfo/gerhardt/
Helvetica
Claus Gerhardt
Institut f=3DFCr Angewandte Mathematik
Ruprecht-Karls-Universit=3DE4t Heidelberg
Im Neuenheimer Feld 294
69120 Heidelberg
Germany
http://www.math.uni-heidelberg.de/studinfo/gerhardt/
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
From: "tom keyes"
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 21:59:06 -0400
Thanks for all the replies:
No method of opening the file works for me.
Yes, the command line works fine (eg pstopdf) but i liked opening them
in TeXShop.
I also immediately updated to 10.2.1
TeX+Ghostscript works for typesetting with .ps as image files so I
doubt gs is broken.
I get the same behavior on my desktop G4 and on my powerbook G4.
If I try to open Console all I can get is console.log - doesn't look
like a console to me, another jaguar glitch? - and upon trying to open
a .ps the msg is "MANPATH: undefined variable".
Sure, trashing some plist might fix it but I don't know yet.
No big deal, unless you're compulsive :)
Tom
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Subject: moving from ps to pdf
From: "Eric van der Oord"
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 06:53:38 +0200
Suppose I have some postscript figure, say"dessin.ps"
TeXshop can transform it , giving "dessin.pdf"
Then I can run altpdflatex with the graphicx package, using
\includegraphics[height=3D50mm]{dessin.ps}
or run pdtlatex, using
\includegraphics[height=3D50mm]{dessin.pdf}
and the size of the result is not the same !
I suspect some BoundingBBox problem.
Is there some systematic way to fix it ?
Thanks for any help
E.
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
From: "Axel E. Retif"
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 06:05:43 -0600
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On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 09:53 AM, tom wrote:
> Since upgrading to 10.2 TexShop no longer opens .ps files. I double=3D20
> click
> on a .ps, TeXShop opens, but nothing happens. I'm using the latest=3D20
> teTeX
> and TeXShop versions. TIA for any suggestions....
I'm running 10.2.1 and TeXShop 1.2. I tried drag-dropping on TeXShop =
a=3D20=3D
.ps file named
VI Concurso=3D97=3DC1reas_gr=3DE1fica.ps
and the console.log (viewed through DesktopConsole.app) immediately=3D20
reported
------
Error: /undefinedfilename in (VI)
Operand stack:
Execution stack:
%interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- =3D20
--nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- =
--nostringval--=3D20=3D
--nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push --nostringval-- =3D20
--nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
--dict:932/983(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:66/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 2
Aladdin Ghostscript 6.01: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
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which is very similar to what Mr. Bruno Voisin ---see Subject: [OS X=3D20
TeX] Feature of epstopdf (probably normal)--- got when running epstopdf.
In his case I guess his file name started with "3/Version" and then a=3D20
space, as implied by his comment
-----
Sorry, I sent my latest message too quickly: I did another test, it's=3D20
not the dot "." but the space " " in paths, which is confusing epstopdf
-----
(or rather to Ghostscript, as we can see in his and mine error=3D20
messages).
I then renamed my file to "grafica.ps" (no spaces, no em dash, no=3D20
accents) and drag-dropped again on TeXShop... and nothing happened, =
not=3D20=3D
even an error message. But then I quitted TeXShop and tried again...=3D20
and it came out perfectly (viewed in TeXShop or Preview, it seems to=3D20
lack some lines, but in Acrobat Reader it is displayed as it should).
To proof Mr. Voisin theory, I renamed again the file to=3D20
VI_Concurso=3D97=3DC1reas_gr=3DE1fica.ps... and it worked! So he's quite =
right=3D20=3D
---it is spaces what you should avoid in your file names.
(Anyway, I'm no longer using em dashes, because you can't type an em=3D20
dash in Terminal.app.)
Axel=3D
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On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 09:53 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....
I'm running 10.2.1 and TeXShop 1.2. I tried drag-dropping on TeXShop a
.ps file named
VI Concurso=3D97=3DC1reas_gr=3DE1fica.ps
and the console.log (viewed through DesktopConsole.app) immediately
reported
------
Error: /undefinedfilename in (VI)
Operand stack:
Execution stack:
%interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- =3D20
--nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- =3D20
--nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push =3D20
--nostringval-- --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
--dict:932/983(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:66/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 2
Aladdin Ghostscript 6.01: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
------Times New Roman
which is very similar to what Mr. Bruno Voisin ---see
Subject: [OS X TeX] Feature of epstopdf (probably normal)--- got when
running epstopdf.
In his case I guess his file name started with "3/Version" and then a
space, as implied by his comment
-----
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
-----
(or rather to Ghostscript, as we can see in his and mine error
messages).
I then renamed my file to "grafica.ps" (no spaces, no em dash, no
accents) and drag-dropped again on TeXShop... and nothing happened,
not even an error message. But then I quitted TeXShop and tried
again... and it came out perfectly (viewed in TeXShop or Preview, it
seems to lack some lines, but in Acrobat Reader it is displayed as it
should).
To proof Mr. Voisin theory, I renamed again the file to
VI_Concurso=3D97=3DC1reas_gr=3DE1fica.ps... and it worked! So he's quite =
right
---it is spaces what you should avoid in your file names.
(Anyway, I'm no longer using em dashes, because you can't type an em
dash in Terminal.app.)
Axel=3D
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
From: "Bruno Voisin"
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 13:35:49 +0200
About Axel Retif's message, supporting what I reported earlier: thanks,
but I think this problem with spaces in filenames is distinct from the
problem with dragging PS or EPS files onto TeXShop (though I wasn't
clear about the separation in my previous messages).
I tried again to drag a file psphprof.eps, at the first level of my
home directory, onto TeXShop, and I tried it several times in sequence,
closing TeXShop in between, it fails all the time with the message in
Console.app:
2002-10-10 13:13:46.797 TeXShop[394] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not
proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/Applications/TeXShop/TeXShop.app/Contents/Resources/French.lproj/
Localizable.strings
The parser will retry as in 10.1, but the problem should be corrected
in the plist.
2002-10-10 13:13:47.681 TeXShop[394] launch path not accessible
And about clean installs, suggested by somebody else: I installed
things as cleanly as possible, using Gerben's i-Installer package for
teTeX and GhostScript 7, and the standard installer for TeXShop; both
are the latest versions.
I didn't go as far as installing OS X 10.2 from scratch, I just
upgraded my 10.1 (actually I did "Archive and install" at the
suggestion of Apple technical support, after experiencing problems) and
then reinstalled teTeX and TeXShop from scratch. I'm also not really
willing to reinstall the OS completely, as I have no additional disk
for backing up the 3.5 Gb in my home directory, everything is on CDs
and Zip cartridges and I don't want to spend the time reconstructing
the directory from the scattered pieces, in case of emergency.
Bruno Voisin
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
From: "Bruno Voisin"
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 14:07:13 +0200
OK, I apologize: I just erased the TeXShop that was on my disk,
downloaded TeXShop.dmg and reinstalled TeXShop from it. Dragging PS and
EPS files work now, just as they did in 10.1.
It seems to be (in my case at least) a problem with read/write/execute
permissions.
So a clean reinstall of TeXShop (the application) is indeed the
solution, apparently. Sorry for having wasted your time.
Bruno Voisin
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
From: "Axel E. Retif"
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:09:34 -0600
On Thursday, October 10, 2002, at 05:35 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:
> About Axel Retif's message, supporting what I reported earlier:
> thanks, but I think this problem with spaces in filenames is distinct
> from the problem with dragging PS or EPS files onto TeXShop (though I
> wasn't clear about the separation in my previous messages).
>
> I tried again to drag a file psphprof.eps, at the first level of my
> home directory, onto TeXShop, and I tried it several times in
> sequence, closing TeXShop in between, it fails all the time with the
> message in Console.app:
>
> 2002-10-10 13:13:46.797 TeXShop[394] CFLog (0):
> CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is
> not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
> /Applications/TeXShop/TeXShop.app/Contents/Resources/French.lproj/
> Localizable.strings
> The parser will retry as in 10.1, but the problem should be corrected
> in the plist.
> 2002-10-10 13:13:47.681 TeXShop[394] launch path not accessible
Well --- I think it's the same. But I tried again, drag-dropping to
TeXShop first and then both ps2pdf and epstopdf in Terminal.app with a
file "V_Concurso_Part_Estados.eps" ---a pdf came out perfectly every
time (but of course ps2pdf named "V_Concurso_Part_Estados.eps.pdf).
For me, then, your solution worked perfectly with TeXShop (because, I
think, it wasn't a TeXShop but a Ghostscript problem).
Axel
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
From: "J=E9r=F4me Laurens"
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 14:16:38 +0200
Le jeudi, 10 oct 2002, =E0 13:35 Europe/Zurich, Bruno Voisin a =E9crit :
> CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data =
is =20
> not 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.
>
All .strings files must be encoded in UTF8, According to TeXShop =20
sources many of them are still in mac os roman which can cause problems =20=
like the one discussed here. Before Richard makes the correction, you =20=
can change things by yourself. Try to open the above file and save it =20=
back with UTF-8 string encoding. You should do the same for all the =20
.strings files in your .lproj
Of course this problem will not occur in english because mac os roman =20=
and UTF 8 restricted to ascii are the same.=
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
From: "Axel E. Retif"
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:16:06 -0600
On Thursday, October 10, 2002, at 06:07 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:
> OK, I apologize: I just erased the TeXShop that was on my disk,
> downloaded TeXShop.dmg and reinstalled TeXShop from it. Dragging PS
> and EPS files work now, just as they did in 10.1.
>
> It seems to be (in my case at least) a problem with read/write/execute
> permissions.
>
> So a clean reinstall of TeXShop (the application) is indeed the
> solution, apparently. Sorry for having wasted your time.
Not a waste of time at all! You made clear that we should avoid spaces
in our file names for them to work in Ghostscript. And here comes again
the "read/write/execute permissions" plague..., or so it seems.
Axel
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
From: "Jean-Claude DE SOZA"
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:05:41 +0200
> Dear Bruno,
>
> I had the same message as you.
> I opened TeXShop.app with a control-click to reveal the contents. Then
> I edited Localizable.strings with Textedit and saved as the file
> somewhere on the desktop by choosing Unicode UTF 8. Finally, I
> replaced the original file Localizable.strings in the TeXShop.app.
> After that, no more message in the Console.
>
> Jean-Claude DE SOZA
>
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Subject: ps2pdf13? (was TeXShop won't open ...)
From: "Gary L. Gray"
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 09:07:53 -0400
On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 12:11 PM, Bruno Voisin wrote:
> Make sure that you use ps2pdf13 instead of ps2pdf (which calls
> ps2pdf12 implicitly), in case you installed GhostScript 7 instead of
> GhostScript 6.
Why use 13 instead of 12? Should this also be changed in the TeXShop
settings? If so, is it simply a matter of changing the Distiller
(ghostscript) path to
/usr/local/bin/ps2pdf13
or is there more to it than that? Does something also need to be
changed in the TeX + dvips + distiller section?
-- Gary L. Gray
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
From: "Bruno Voisin"
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:19:25 +0200
Le jeudi, 10 oct 2002, =E0 15:05 Europe/Paris, Jean-Claude DE SOZA a=20
=E9crit :
>> I had the same message as you.
>> I opened TeXShop.app with a control-click to reveal the contents.=20
>> Then I edited Localizable.strings with Textedit and saved as the file
>> somewhere on the desktop by choosing Unicode UTF 8. Finally, I
>> replaced the original file Localizable.strings in the TeXShop.app.
>> After that, no more message in the Console.
That's what I did first, early this afternoon, on a copy of TeXShop.app=20=
that I had moved to the Desktop. And yes, things worked (dragging=20
PS/EPS files onto TeXShop) after I had done that.
But then I tried taking the original TeXShop.app, unmodified, and=20
moving it to the Desktop. Surprise: things worked too, with this=20
unmodified copy.
Then I erased all the TeXShops on my disk and reinstalled it from=20
scratch. Things work, too.
Or is it that having once modified=20
TeXShop.app/Contents/Resources/French.lproj/Localizable.strings=20
(opening it in TextEdit.app and converting the encoding to UTF-8)=20
modifies some .plist file generated by TeXShop, and makes sure that it=20=
works in any case afterwards?
I'm just sure of one thing for now: I'm lost!
Bruno Voisin=
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] ps2pdf13? (was TeXShop won't open ...)
From: "Bruno Voisin"
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:25:46 +0200
Le jeudi, 10 oct 2002, =E0 15:07 Europe/Paris, Gary L.Gray a =E9crit :
> Why use 13 instead of 12? Should this also be changed in the TeXShop=20=
> settings? If so, is it simply a matter of changing the Distiller=20
> (ghostscript) path to
>
> /usr/local/bin/ps2pdf13
>
> or is there more to it than that? Does something also need to be=20
> changed in the TeX + dvips + distiller section?
It's related to a problem with misplaced accents (first found on this=20
list in the thread "[OS X TeX] Accent bug with times", and in another=20
thread afterwards), if you use the TeX + GhostScript route instead of=20
pdfTeX. The script ps2pdf calls ps2pdf12 by default, and then you have=20=
this reported problem; if you call ps2pdf13 directly, the problem=20
disappears. That's what I observed at least in the reported case.
Bruno Voisin=
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] ps2pdf13? (was TeXShop won't open ...)
From: "Gary L. Gray"
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 09:41:24 -0400
On Thursday, October 10, 2002, at 09:25 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:
>> Why use 13 instead of 12? Should this also be changed in the TeXShop
>> settings? If so, is it simply a matter of changing the Distiller
>> (ghostscript) path to
>>
>> /usr/local/bin/ps2pdf13
>>
>> or is there more to it than that? Does something also need to be
>> changed in the TeX + dvips + distiller section?
>
> It's related to a problem with misplaced accents (first found on this
> list in the thread "[OS X TeX] Accent bug with times", and in another
> thread afterwards), if you use the TeX + GhostScript route instead of
> pdfTeX. The script ps2pdf calls ps2pdf12 by default, and then you have
> this reported problem; if you call ps2pdf13 directly, the problem
> disappears. That's what I observed at least in the reported case.
Aha. Thank you.
Is the solution outlined above the way to make TeXShop call ps2pdf13
when typesetting using TeX + Ghostscript? Did I miss anything?
Thank you,
-- Gary L. Gray
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] ps2pdf13? (was TeXShop won't open ...)
From: "Bruno Voisin"
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:54:04 +0200
Le jeudi, 10 oct 2002, =E0 15:41 Europe/Paris, Gary L.Gray a =E9crit :
>>> Why use 13 instead of 12? Should this also be changed in the TeXShop=20=
>>> settings? If so, is it simply a matter of changing the Distiller=20
>>> (ghostscript) path to
>>>
>>> /usr/local/bin/ps2pdf13
>>>
>>> or is there more to it than that? Does something also need to be=20
>>> changed in the TeX + dvips + distiller section?
>>
>> It's related to a problem with misplaced accents (first found on this=20=
>> list in the thread "[OS X TeX] Accent bug with times", and in another=20=
>> thread afterwards), if you use the TeX + GhostScript route instead of=20=
>> pdfTeX. The script ps2pdf calls ps2pdf12 by default, and then you=20
>> have this reported problem; if you call ps2pdf13 directly, the=20
>> problem disappears. That's what I observed at least in the reported=20=
>> case.
>
> Aha. Thank you.
>
> Is the solution outlined above the way to make TeXShop call ps2pdf13=20=
> when typesetting using TeX + Ghostscript? Did I miss anything?
I think Gerben told that, if this bug is reported and confirmed by=20
several people, and if the fix (calling ps2pdf13) is also confirmed and=20=
doesn't create problems with GhostScript 6, the simpler solution would=20=
probably be to modify the scripts (that he wrote) altpdftex and=20
altpdflatex to call ps2pdf13 instead of ps2pdf12.
=46rom Gerben's message:
> On Wednesday, Oct 2, 2002, at 23:08 Europe/Amsterdam, Bruno Voisin=20
> wrote:
>
>> - Not recommended in any case: modify the scripts
>>
>> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin5.5/altpdftex
>> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin5.5/altpdflatex
>>
>> by editing the line
>>
>> distillerprog=3D"ps2pdf"
>>
>> adding -dCompatibility=3D1.3 maybe.
>
> Or just changing it to ps2pdf13. Not recommended for others, but,=20
> being the author, I might of course make ps2pdf13 the default for=20
> altpdftex in the future. Are there disadvantages? E.g. when running=20
> gs6 on OSX 10.1? I cannot test this myself (Justmoved to 10.2.1 and my=20=
> 10.1 disk is dying, only 1 year old Maxtor *80GB with block/sector=20
> problems).
Bruno Voisin
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop won't open .ps in jaguar
From: "Lee Phillips"
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 11:38:54 -0400
I had this version of the problem in MacOS X 10.2.1: .ps and .eps files,
when dragged to TeXShop or opened with a contextual menu, produced no
result. (ps2pdf13 worked fine from the Terminal - I have Ghostscript 6.0.1
installed.) I edited altpdflatex to have distillerprog=3D"ps2pdf13", but =
this
did not help. So, I trashed by TeXShop v. 1.19 and installed v.1.20, and =
now
it works. So, if you have this problem, try upgrading first!
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