[OS X TeX] Linux --> Mac: Beamer and "Non-PDF special ignored!"

Rick Chartrand rickchartrand at cal.berkeley.edu
Wed Sep 22 18:51:46 CEST 2010


Herb,

Thanks for your reply.  I did subsequently do a Tex Live update (took 45
minutes), but the pdfTeX behavior remains the same.  My list of files
appears to be the same as yours, though not everything is in the same
order.  I guess something on my system has broken pdfTeX, in a way that is
unlikely to be common, I'm afraid.

Rick

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com>wrote:

>
> On Sep 22, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Rick Chartrand wrote:
>
> > I am a long-time LaTeX user on Linux platforms, and now have a brand new
> > Mac, with a fresh install of MacTeX/TexLive 2010.  I took an existing
> Beamer
> > presentation (one that works fine in Linux) and tried compiling it (with
> > pdfLaTeX), and got a slew of "Non-PDF special ignored!" errors, and the
> > \visible commands weren't functioning properly in the PDF (every
> component
> > woud be uncovered for every PDF page in the slide).  But in attempting to
> > isolate the problem, I found the following is sufficient to produce the
> > errors:
> > \documentclass{beamer}
> > \begin{document}
> > \begin{frame}
> > \end{frame}
> > \end{document}
> >
> > This produces about 100 "Non-PDF special ignored!" errors, with no other
> > enlightening errors in the output or the log.  Behavior is the same from
> the
> > command line or TeXworks.
> >
> > Searching elsewhere suggests this is a pdfTeX problem, but hasn't given
> me a
> > clue about the cause or a solution.  I'm baffled how something so common
> > could go so completely wrong.  FWIW, the pdfTeX version listed in the
> output
> > is 3.1415926-1.40.11, while in Linux, a successful compile runs with the
> > output declaring pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3.
> >
> > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  This is the last step in
> > converting this silvery paperweight into a useful scientific computing
> > device.
> >
> > Rick
>
> Howdy,
>
> After installing MacTeX-2010 there have been many package updates. Use TeX
> Live Utility to get up to date. I have no problem compiling that file here.
> Put \listfiles at the top of the document and compare with this list from my
> system.
>
>  beamer.cls    2010/06/21 development version 3.10 A class for typesetting
> pre
> sentations (rcs-revision a6b1a8434d30)
> beamerbasercs.sty    2010/06/12 (rcs-revision c3821710bb40)
> beamerbasemodes.sty    2010/05/01 (rcs-revision efa082c6111d)
> beamerbasedecode.sty    2010/05/01 (rcs-revision efa082c6111d)
> beamerbaseoptions.sty    2010/04/27 (rcs-revision 982469101dd6)
>  keyval.sty    1999/03/16 v1.13 key=value parser (DPC)
> geometry.sty    2010/09/12 v5.6 Page Geometry
>   ifpdf.sty    2010/01/28 v2.1 Provides the ifpdf switch (HO)
>  ifvtex.sty    2010/03/01 v1.5 Switches for detecting VTeX and its modes
> (HO)
>  ifxetex.sty    2010/09/12 v0.6 Provides ifxetex conditional
>  size11.clo    2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
>  pgfcore.sty    2008/01/15 v2.00 (rcs-revision 1.6)
> graphicx.sty    1999/02/16 v1.0f Enhanced LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
> graphics.sty    2009/02/05 v1.0o Standard LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
>    trig.sty    1999/03/16 v1.09 sin cos tan (DPC)
> graphics.cfg    2010/04/23 v1.9 graphics configuration of TeX Live
>  pdftex.def    2010/09/14 v0.05b Graphics/color for pdfTeX
>  pgfsys.sty    2008/02/07 v2.00 (rcs-revision 1.31)
>  pgfrcs.sty    2008/02/20 v2.00 (rcs-revision 1.21)
>  pgfrcs.code.tex
>  pgfsys.code.tex
> pgfsyssoftpath.code.tex    2008/01/23  (rcs-revision 1.6)
> pgfsysprotocol.code.tex    2006/10/16  (rcs-revision 1.4)
>  xcolor.sty    2007/01/21 v2.11 LaTeX color extensions (UK)
>   color.cfg    2007/01/18 v1.5 color configuration of teTeX/TeXLive
>  pgfcore.code.tex
>  xxcolor.sty    2003/10/24 ver 0.1
> hyperref.sty    2010/09/17 v6.81q Hypertext links for LaTeX
>  ltxcmds.sty    2010/04/26 v1.7 LaTeX kernel commands for general use (HO)
> infwarerr.sty    2010/04/08 v1.3 Providing info/warning/message (HO)
> kvsetkeys.sty    2010/03/01 v1.9 Key value parser (HO)
> etexcmds.sty    2010/01/28 v1.3 Prefix for e-TeX command names (HO)
> pdfescape.sty    2010/03/01 v1.9 Provides hex, PDF name and string
> conversions
> (HO)
> pdftexcmds.sty    2010/04/01 v0.9 Utility functions of pdfTeX for LuaTeX
> (HO)
> ifluatex.sty    2010/03/01 v1.3 Provides the ifluatex switch (HO)
>  hycolor.sty    2009/12/12 v1.6 Color options of hyperref/bookmark (HO)
> xcolor-patch.sty    2009/12/12 xcolor patch
> letltxmacro.sty    2008/06/24 v1.3 Let assignment for LaTeX macros (HO)
> kvoptions.sty    2010/02/22 v3.7 Keyval support for LaTeX options (HO)
>  pd1enc.def    2010/09/17 v6.81q Hyperref: PDFDocEncoding definition (HO)
>  intcalc.sty    2007/09/27 v1.1 Expandable integer calculations (HO)
> hyperref.cfg    2002/06/06 v1.2 hyperref configuration of TeXLive
>     url.sty    2006/04/12  ver 3.3  Verb mode for urls, etc.
>  bitset.sty    2007/09/28 v1.0 Data type bit set (HO)
> bigintcalc.sty    2007/11/11 v1.1 Expandable big integer calculations (HO)
> atbegshi.sty    2010/03/25 v1.12 At begin shipout hook (HO)
>  hpdftex.def    2010/09/17 v6.81q Hyperref driver for pdfTeX
> atveryend.sty    2010/03/24 v1.5 Hooks at very end of document (HO)
> rerunfilecheck.sty    2010/03/16 v1.6 Rerun checks for auxiliary files (HO)
> uniquecounter.sty    2009/12/18 v1.1 Provides unlimited unique counter (HO)
> beamerbaserequires.sty    2010/05/01  (rcs-revision efa082c6111d)
> beamerbasecompatibility.sty    2010/07/12  (rcs-revision 6648c3177e4e)
> beamerbasefont.sty    2010/05/10  (rcs-revision cd36e8a33c6b)
>  amssymb.sty    2009/06/22 v3.00
> amsfonts.sty    2009/06/22 v3.00 Basic AMSFonts support
> beamerbasetranslator.sty    2010/06/11  (rcs-revision 85fd1cc7fc42)
> translator.sty    2010/06/12 ver 1.10
> translator-language-mappings.tex
> beamerbasemisc.sty    2010/06/06  (rcs-revision bff0a9294b45)
> beamerbasetwoscreens.sty    2010/05/01  (rcs-revision efa082c6111d)
> beamerbaseoverlay.sty    2010/05/07  (rcs-revision 5584dad462a9)
> beamerbasetitle.sty    2010/06/12  (rcs-revision 717e481ca47a)
> beamerbasesection.sty    2010/06/17  (rcs-revision e0d9401bb743)
> beamerbaseframe.sty    2010/06/06  (rcs-revision bff0a9294b45)
> beamerbaseverbatim.sty    2010/05/01  (rcs-revision efa082c6111d)
> beamerbaseframesize.sty    2010/06/27  (rcs-revision 6baa2d92e6f1)
> beamerbaseframecomponents.sty    2010/07/12  (rcs-revision 09e82992d9b1)
> beamerbasecolor.sty    2010/06/06  (rcs-revision d1a9b48be06d)
> beamerbasenotes.sty    2010/05/01  (rcs-revision efa082c6111d)
> beamerbasetoc.sty    2010/06/11  (rcs-revision 242ecaa6783b)
> beamerbasetemplates.sty    2010/05/01  (rcs-revision efa082c6111d)
> beamerbaseauxtemplates.sty    2010/05/01  (rcs-revision efa082c6111d)
> beamerbaseboxes.sty    2010/05/01  (rcs-revision efa082c6111d)
> beamerbaselocalstructure.sty    2010/06/01  (rcs-revision 81f9e33f7cc2)
> enumerate.sty    1999/03/05 v3.00 enumerate extensions (DPC)
> beamerbasenavigation.sty    2010/05/01  (rcs-revision efa082c6111d)
> beamerbasetheorems.sty    2010/06/06  (rcs-revision 7e7cc5e53e9d)
>  amsmath.sty    2000/07/18 v2.13 AMS math features
>  amstext.sty    2000/06/29 v2.01
>  amsgen.sty    1999/11/30 v2.0
>  amsbsy.sty    1999/11/29 v1.2d
>  amsopn.sty    1999/12/14 v2.01 operator names
>  amsthm.sty    2004/08/06 v2.20
> beamerbasethemes.sty    2010/05/01  (rcs-revision efa082c6111d)
> beamerthemedefault.sty    2010/06/17  (rcs-revision d02a7cf4d8ae)
> beamerfontthemedefault.sty    2010/06/17  (rcs-revision d02a7cf4d8ae)
> beamercolorthemedefault.sty    2010/06/17  (rcs-revision d02a7cf4d8ae)
> beamerinnerthemedefault.sty    2010/06/17  (rcs-revision d02a7cf4d8ae)
> beamerouterthemedefault.sty    2010/06/17  (rcs-revision d02a7cf4d8ae)
> supp-pdf.mkii
> epstopdf-base.sty    2010/02/09 v2.5 Base part for package epstopdf
>  grfext.sty    2007/09/30 v1.0 Managing graphics extensions (HO)
> epstopdf-sys.cfg    2010/07/13 v1.3 Configuration of (r)epstopdf for TeX
> Live
> epstopdf.cfg
>  nameref.sty    2010/04/30 v2.40 Cross-referencing by name of section
> refcount.sty    2008/08/11 v3.1 Data extraction from references (HO)
> gettitlestring.sty    2009/12/18 v1.3 Cleanup title references (HO)
> translator-basic-dictionary-English.dict
> translator-bibliography-dictionary-English.dict
> translator-environment-dictionary-English.dict
> translator-months-dictionary-English.dict
> translator-numbers-dictionary-English.dict
> translator-theorem-dictionary-English.dict
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>
>
>
>
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