[OS X TeX] TeXShop/teTeX speed using TeX+ghostscript
Warren Nagourney
warren at dirac.phys.washington.edu
Tue Sep 24 19:42:59 CEST 2002
Many thanks to all who responded. I believe the approach of using
pdftex/pdflatex and leaving the extensions off is a good one. Then
either program can be used without changing the source.
I did some measurements of the time between changing the text and
seeing the preview. Using tex+ghostscript it took 8 seconds, using
pdftex it took 3 seconds. Not surprisingly, ghostscript is the big time
consumer.
By the way, I haven't noticed any slowdowns due to syntax coloring. I
am using TeXShop 1.2 and Jaguar. Also, I agree that antialiasing is not
the issue; I mentioned it since it is *very* slow in TeXtures (one of
the many advantages of TeXshop).
Thanks again.
Warren Nagourney
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