[OS X TeX] Safari, TeXShop, TeXLive +PDF

André Bellaïche abellaic at math.jussieu.fr
Wed Jul 29 17:12:58 CEST 2009


Le 29 juil. 09 à 16:06, Adam R. Maxwell a écrit :

>
> On Jul 29, 2009, at 7:01 AM, André Bellaïche wrote:
>
>> On my Imac, Safari is very very long for displaying pdf files (more  
>> than one minute for a 2 pages LaTeX-originated file), while with  
>> Firefox, the displaying is quasi instantaneous.
>>
>> It seems that Safari uses an internal pdf-displayer, while Firefox  
>> first downloads the file, then opens it with Preview. Could it be  
>> possible that the slowness of Safari be caused by the changes in  
>> ghostscript, etc. made when installing TeXShop or TeXLive?
>
> Very unlikely.  Safari/WebKit will use Apple's PDF libraries, which  
> know nothing of ghostscript.

Don't you yhink that installing TeXShop or TeXLive may alter these  
libraries?
>
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