[OS X TeX]

[Paul Fontana]

Well, it turns out restarting TeXShop appears to have resolved the 
paths, because now the font works!  Sometimes the old Microsoft 
solution still applies.  pdflatex and TeXShop are still using different 
versions of the software, but I'm inclined not to mess with that as 
long as everything is working.

However, I did notice that if I make a .pdf using pdflatex at the 
terminal, and then send it to TeXShop using
open -a "/Applications/TeXShop.app" filename.pdf,

I get a slightly nicer-looking version than if I do the whole thing 
(processing and rendering) in TeXShop.  The two .pdf's also look a 
little different in Preview, though less-so (the pdflatex document is 
lighter in weight), but I can't tell the difference between them when I 
print.  (It also makes a slight difference whether TeXShop is set to 
typeset in 'Pdftex' or in 'Tex and Ghostscript'.  Does this point to 
different distillers?)

My TeXShop settings are:
Path settings:
(pdf)TeX: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current
Distiller:  /usr/local/bin

pdfTeX:
TeX program: pdftex --shell-escape
LaTeX program: pdflatex --shell-escape

TeX + dvips + distiller:
TeX program:  simpdftex tex --maxpfb
LaTeX program:  simpdftex latex --maxpfb

Is there a better choise to make the rendering more clear?

Thanks,
-- pwf


On Sep 8, 2006, at 11:21 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

>
> On Sep 8, 2006, at 11:24 AM, Paul Fontana wrote:
>
>>
>> One difference that might provide a clue is that the two systems are 
>> using different versions of pdfeTeX and Web2C, as you can see on the 
>> transcript headers above.  Is this a problem, or at least an 
>> indication that TeXShop isn't using the right file tree or something? 
>>  I also notice that they are looking in different places for the file 
>> pdftex.map -- apparently the one at 
>> /Users/fontanap/.texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map is OK, 
>> but the one at 
>> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map 
>> must not be.
>>
>> All this seems to suggest the problem is with TeXShop's 
>> configuration.  What should I do to fix it?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -- pwf
>
> Howdy,
>
> Hmmm... If you look in TeXShop->Preferences Engine tab what is the 
> (pdf)TeX Path setting? You appear to have two competing TeX 
> distributions here; a very bad thing!
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
>
>
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