[OS X TeX] Re: LaTeXit 2.0 unusable

[Herbert Schulz]

On Nov 11, 2009, at 12:14 PM, MattF wrote:

> <epicurus at ...> writes:
> 
> 
>> Thanks, but that didn't work.  Still the beach ball, still the crash.  What's
> more, after the crash my font
>> caches seem to be messed up: they show the same symptoms as came from the
> infamous "font cache bug".  I
>> patched the binaries affected by the fontcache bug when the patches came out.
> LaTeXiT is messing with the
>> cache---is that even possible?
>> 
>> - epicurus
>>> 
>> 
> I had the same crashing problem. What seemed to fix it was opening up the info
> pane for LaTexiT and checking the 'open in 32-bit mode' box. Seems to work now...
> 
> MattF
> 

Howdy,

Sorry, I didn't realize that 2.0.0 actually came with a 64bit binary included or that the choice would show up under 10.5. This definitely sounds like good advice since 10.5 can't run 64bit code. You'd think the OS would always default to 32bit unless it can handle 64bit. This would certainly make it clear why it worked on my PowerBook (PPC) 10.5 system.

Please let us know if this helps.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)