[OS X TeX] dots in Texshop

[Tom Kiffe]

On Feb 16, 2005, at 9:59 AM, Aaron Jackson wrote:

> On Feb 16, 2005, at 10:26 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>
>>
>> Am 16.02.2005 um 15:53 schrieb Alain Matthes:
>>
>>> I would like to understand in my
>>> relatively simple case why I do not see dots in texshop by using
>>> ghostscript.  Which is the reason?
>>
>> I tried all three Ghostscript based versions, i.e. ps2pdf12, 
>> ps2pdf13, and ps2pdf14. The results were different in ps2pdf12, but 
>> all were wrong, since the dots were not equally spaced on the lines. 
>> It has to be an error in Ghostscript (8.14) ... At least all dots, 
>> those from Panther and those from Ghostscript, seem to have the same 
>> size at 500%.
>
> I have noticed the same thing in the past.  This is defiantly a bug 
> somewhere, however the dots print properly regardless how you distill 
> the file, so I have never considered it too much of a problem.
>
> Aaron
>

I don't think this problem is due to a bug in ghostscript but in 
TeXShop, Preview, and TeXniscope, all of
which use Apple's PDF rendering routines. Regardless of the version of 
ghostscript, 8.00-8.51, the dots
always appear in Acrobat Reader at 100% magnification and even less.

If I use Apple's pstopdf the dots begin to appear in TeXShop, Preview, 
and TeXniscope at 120%. Of
course, pstopdf takes much, much longer to produce the PDF file. I, for 
one, do not always trust
Apple's PDF. There were problems with font display in earlier versions 
of OS X when using Apple's
routines.

Tom

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