[OS X TeX] Re: Pdftex versus TeX&Ghostscript

[Gerben Wierda]

Hi,

this is a known issue with a recent (post fall 2004) TeX. TeX has  
changed its behaviour, especially because there now only is one main  
engine which is used for both pdfTeX and (almost) all other TeXs:  
pdfetex

I am unable to give generic TeX support to all users out there.  
Please go to the Mac OS X TeX mailing list and look at the archives.

Yours,

G

On 22 May 2005, at 18:45, Hanspeter Kraft wrote:

> Hi
>
> Since quite a while I'm using TeXshop together with the  
> installation of teTex/TeXLive via i_Installer on MacOSX (presently  
> 10.3.9). I recently reinstalled teTex/TeXLive using the i_Installer  
> (always newest versions) and now I have the following strange problem:
>
> Using Plain TeX in TeXshop, magnification behaves very strangely if  
> | use "Pdftex", but perfectly if I use "TeX and Ghostscript". The  
> printout is completely different from what one sees in the  
> previewer. This was definitely not so before reinstalling the  
> newest versions of teTeX/TeXLife.
>
> Thanks for your help         Hanspeter Kraft
>
> **********************************************************************
>
> Here are the results using the attached plain tex file Test with  
> \magnification=\magstep3:
>
> (a) with "TeX and Ghostscript" (--> attached file Test-TeXGhost.pdf)
> TeX messages:
> ### This is /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/ 
> altpdftex, Version $Revision: 2.18 $
> ### /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/tex Test- 
> TeXGhost.tex
> This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.3)
> (./Test-TeXGhost.tex [1] )
> Output written on Test-TeXGhost.dvi (1 page, 2576 bytes).
> Transcript written on Test-TeXGhost.log.
> ### /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/dvips -R - 
> Poutline  -o /tmp/altpdftex.2629-1116776532/Test-TeXGhost.ps Test- 
> TeXGhost.dvi
> This is dvips(k) 5.94b Copyright 2004 Radical Eye Software  
> (www.radicaleye.com)
> ' TeX output 2005.05.22:1742' -> /tmp/altpdftex.2629-1116776532/ 
> Test-TeXGhost.ps
> <tex.pro><texps.pro>. <cmr10.pfb>[1]
> ### ps2pdf13 /tmp/altpdftex.2629-1116776532/Test-TeXGhost.ps /tmp/ 
> altpdftex.2629-1116776532/Test-TeXGhost.pdf
> ### Copying/moving pdf file /tmp/altpdftex.2629-1116776532/Test- 
> TeXGhost.pdf to Test-TeXGhost.pdf
> ### Succesfully generated Test-TeXGhost.dvi and Test-TeXGhost.pdf
>
>
> (b) with "Pdftex" (--> attached file Test-pdf.pdf)
> TeX messages:
> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3)
>  \write18 enabled.
> output format initialized to PDF
> entering extended mode
> (./Test-pdf.tex [1{/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/ 
> pdftex/updmap/p
> dftex.map}] )</usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/type1/ 
> bluesky/cm/cmr10.pfb>
> Output written on Test-pdf.pdf (1 page, 5089 bytes).
> Transcript written on Test-pdf.log.
>
>
>
> <Test.tex>
> <Test-TeXGhost.pdf>
> <Test-pdf.pdf>
>
>
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