[XeTeX] no pdf?

[Jonathan Kew]

On 7 Sep 2007, at 12:08 pm, Willem wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I recently installed the texlive-distribution, the complete thing
> installed (so usr/local/texlive), with TeXshop and XeTeX. TeXshop
> appears to work as usual (following the instructions for the
> preferences), and tells me that it wrote the fielename.pdf away.
>
> However, no pdf appears in a separate window, nor is there any pdf- 
> file
> on my drive. Any advice?

It sounds like an output driver problem of some kind.... xetex  
reports "Output written to ...." in faith, trusting that the driver  
will do as it's told, but if the driver crashes then you won't  
actually get a file.

Could you copy & paste the actual console output of the run? I  
suspect there may be some clues there.

What happens if you try running it from the command line in a  
Terminal window, rather than through TeXShop?

JK