[Mac OS X TeX] opening ps, eps & dvi files from TeXShop

[J.Huelsmann]

I also tried this, it works fine on .dvi input, too.
Maybe the directory of your .dvi file is read-only??
--Jan--

>I just tested this with TeXShop 1.13 and it seemed to work at first. 
>What I did:
>
>1. Choose File->Open from the menu
>2. navigate to an eps file
>3. Select it.
>
>After a few seconds it correctly opened in the pdf output window.
>
>I tried the same with a DVI file, and though the file was processed 
>correctly (I could see this in the Console.app console window) the 
>PDF was not displayed. It also failed to open an .ps file.
>
>So, as far as I can see, dvi and ps do not work, eps does work. I'll 
>investigate.
>
>G
>
>On Sunday, December 9, 2001, at 02:15 , Gérard Degrez wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I read from the web site that TeXShop should be able to open ps, eps
>>& dvi files. I tried, but nothing happens. What could be wrong?
>>
>>I upgraded to TeXShop 1.13 this morning (including the upgrade of
>>teTeX and ghostscript), and I'm running MacOS 10.1.
>>
>>Maybe slightly off topic, but this is what prompted my interest in
>>this ability of TeXShop: how can one send a PS file directly to a PS
>>printer (i.e. without converting it to pdf: it seems to me that
>>converting a PS file to pdf and then having the print driver
>>reconverting it to PS for the printer's benefit is rather stupid)
>>under MacOSX? (i.e. what the DropPS utility was doing under previous
>>MacOS systems).
>>
>>Gérard Degrez
>>
>>
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