[OS X TeX] 10.4.7, dvipdf, Preview, and mangled math

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 24.07.2006 um 07:42 schrieb overdog.ldn at gmail.com:

> My TeX installation is teTeX via fink, which must have been updated  
> last around the time of the original 10.4 release, probably  
> compiled from source. I recently upgraded to 10.4.7, but have no  
> idea whether that's to blame for a problem I recently started  
> experiencing, although, as far as I know it always worked OK under  
> 10.4.6 and never under 10.4.7.

You can always rebuild.

	fink selfupdate
	fink update-all
	fink rebuild <those packages you really need, i.e. teTeX and  
Ghostscript>

>
> The particular problem is that many of my math expressions appear  
> mangled in Preview, with several glyphs missing, or replaced by  
> square boxes with either various shades or weird phonetic  
> characters in them. I'm not doing very much special beyond  
> straightahead math typesetting. The problem seems to be largely  
> confined to non-numeric super-/subscripts. I don't see this problem  
> in Acrobat reader, but my document is quite long (>100 pages) and I  
> can't currently say whether other weirdness is resulting.

There could be a problem with encodings, but then some excerpt from  
the TeX source and its LOG file, particularly dvips referring, are  
needed. You could add as first of these statements

	\usepackage{cmap}

to tell Unicode viewers that the irregular TeX characters often  
correspond to regular Unicode characters.

>
> I build pdfs from a dvi output by LaTeX using dvi2pdf. I have also  
> tried generating postscript from the dvi using dvips, and using  
> Apple's pstopdf, but the problem I describe below persists. As far  
> as I know, I am only using built-in default LaTeX fonts. I haven't  
> tried anything fancy like using Mac fonts or anything like that.

You could try to use pdfTeX to see what's produced directly!


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