[OS X TeX] TeXniscope v0.2

[William F. Adams]

On Wednesday, August 25, 2004, at 11:16  AM, Massimiliano Gubinelli  
wrote:

>
> Unfortunately TeXniscope uses some PDF library which (to my knowledge)  
> are not available in 10.2.x (I cannot check this myself).
> Therefore either versions (v0.1 & v0.2) of TeXniscope cannot work in  
> 10.2.x.

's alright. You may want to clarify your web page on this point though.

> The library I need come toghether with some header files located in:
>
> /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/ 
> CoreGraphics.framework/Headers/
>
> it would be useful if some of you using 10.2.x can check for me if  
> some header files starting with CGPDF*.h (e.g. CGPDFDocument.h,  
> CGPDFPage.h) are available in this directory.

There're two files there:

CGPDFContext.h
CGPDFDocument.h

> For what concerns incremental viewing a la TeXview.app (cited in a  
> mail from William F. Adams) if somebody can take some time to describe  
> this feature to me more carefully I would be interested in trying to  
> implement it. (I have a copy of the source code of TeXview.app but I  
> cannot compile it on the MacOSX and so I cannot try myself how it  
> works).

It uses Mach ``Inter Process Communication'' (IPC) so that the viewing  
program is informed when a given page is completely written out in the  
.dvi so that it may display it while the tex process continues on with  
the balance of the document.

This makes TeXview.app feel much faster and more responsive than TeXshop

Apparently this has been carried forward to ``dvichop'' which is used  
in some more recent projects.

William

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