[OS X TeX] font cache bug

[David Messerschmitt]

Yes, have tried all that. I am aware that texshop is not the direct  
source of the problem, but I do not see it in preview (or adobe of  
course), just the texshop previewer. All I can figure is that texshop  
is invoking the font cache demons more consistently than Preview for  
some weird reason. Anyway, hoping for an improvement with 2009. Wish I  
had never installed Office 2008 -- which I blame as the source of all  
problems.

-dave


On Dec 3, 2009, at 5:31 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

>
> On Dec 3, 2009, at 6:57 PM, David Messerschmitt wrote:
>
>>
>> Do you happen to have MS Office 2008 installed?
>> I am still using TeX Live 2008 (supposedly patched to repair the  
>> font cache bug) with OS 10.5.
>> However, I still see frequent font problems with TexShop viewer
>> (roughly one out of every three typesettings). These problems began  
>> when
>> I installed MS Office 2008. On the MS support forums they noted  
>> this general
>> problem (font caches, not specifically Latex) and claimed that  
>> uninstalling MS Office 2008 and
>> custom installing it without fonts would solve the problem. I  
>> tried, and it doesnt help TexShop.
>>
>> I am hoping that Live 2009 will help, but am waiting for TexShop to  
>> be updated before
>> installing it.
>>
>> -dgm
>>
>
> Howdy,
>
> TeXShop has nothing to do with it! It is simply a front end to your  
> TeX distribution. And the previewer uses the same software are  
> Preview for displaying pdf files.
>
> Did you clear all your font caches (e.g., use Onyx) after removing  
> the fonts?
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>
>
>
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David Messerschmitt
Roger Strauch Professor Emeritus
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of Californa at Berkeley
     and
Visiting Professor
Helsinki University of Technology
Software Business Laboratory
    and
Visiting Researcher
SETI Institute