[OS X TeX] Artifacts in preview window

[Warren Nagourney]

Thanks all for your comments on my observation of (minor) artifacts in the preview window. I am pleased to note that I am not alone -- I guess it is another PDFKit problem (the last one, which was fixed in Mavericks, was the the slight distortions in text observed after horizontal scrolling). Now I have the very tedious ask of determining the cause of my computer's instability...

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On Aug 8, 2014, at 9:28 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:

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> On Aug 8, 2014, at 12:21 AM, Warren Nagourney <wna at u.washington.edu> wrote:
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>> ...
>> In an unrelated area, my Macbook has recently become somewhat unstable. After a year of no crashes at all, I am now getting a complete freeze every couple of weeks. While using TeXshop on my book today, the session suddenly quit, forcing me to re-login. Usually, everything (including the mouse pointer and clock) just freezes, requiring a reboot. I am hoping it is not a hardware issue (I don't have Applecare). Sorry for the off topic query.
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>> Warren Nagourney
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> Howdy,
> 
> I have had either my Bluetooth Keyboard or Magic Trackpad or Both freeze up on Wake After Sleep under OS X 10.9.x (don't remember if it also happened under 10.8). Sometimes switching them off until the OS notices and then switching them back on fixes things but I've had a few freezes like that and I had to force a power-down and restart to resolve things. For now I have my iMac set to blank the display after 40 non-active minutes and never let the system sleep; so far no problems.
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> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
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