[OS X TeX] A problem with TeXShop

"M. Tamer Özsu" ozsut at mac.com
Sun Jun 4 00:55:58 CEST 2017


Thanks Dick. I am not using pstricks, but I am using tikz. The issue is that this does not happen all the time; only when compilation runs into a problem (and even then not always). It is possible that the problematic run is running into a tikz problem somewhere.

==Tamer
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M. Tamer Özsu
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> On Jun 3, 2017, at 6:53 PM, Richard M. Koch <koch at uoregon.edu <mailto:koch at uoregon.edu>> wrote:
> 
> I think you have run into an Apple bug, which we reported to Apple several weeks ago.
> 
> The bug occurs if you 
> 
> 	\usepackage{pstricks}
> 
> but then typeset using pdflatex. Of course pstricks requires typesetting with TeX + DVI, but some
> users have been including pstricks, but not actually using any features of the package. This worked
> until a recent version of Sierra.
> 
> Sometimes, \usepackage{tikz} is also required to trigger the bug.
> 
> The resulting pdf displays fine in Adobe Acrobat, but hangs both Preview and TeXShop, because
> both use PDFKit to display pdf files. Once the pdf is bad, restarting TeXShop will cause it to try
> to load the pdf again and crash again.
> 
> If this isn't it, write again. There is another Apple bug with difference consequences, but
> this is the most likely in your case.
> 
> Dick Koch
> 
> 
>> On Jun 3, 2017, at 3:43 PM, M. Tamer Özsu <ozsut at mac.com <mailto:ozsut at mac.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> I am having an interesting intermittent problem with TeXShop. If it runs into a compilation error, after I end the compilation session, it hangs up. I have to abort it, and subsequent restarts hang up as well. Usually I have to restart the system. This happens on two machines, both of which are on 10.12.5 and TeXShop version 3.77.
>> 
>> I wonder if this happens to anyone else. I have not been able to figure out what the cause might be. It started in the last couple of weeks.
>> 
>> ==Tamer
>> --
>> M. Tamer Özsu
>> Professor, Cheriton School of Computer Science
>> University of Waterloo
>> https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~tozsu <https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~tozsu>
>> +1-519-888-4043
>> 
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