[OS X TeX] Drawer not working in TeXShop?

[Victor Ivrii]

On 2/9/06, Bruno Voisin <bvoisin at mac.com> wrote:
> Le 9 févr. 06 à 13:28, Victor Ivrii a écrit :
>
> > On 2/9/06, Bruno Voisin <bvoisin at mac.com> wrote:
> >> Is it normal that, with the latest version of TeXShop on Tiger
> >> 10.4.4, the Drawer item is always dimmed in the Preview menu?
> >
> > No, it works for me (10.4.4) both in Apple Preview and TeXShop
> > Preview (2.09a)
> > [which of them are you talking about?]
>
> On my setup, the Drawer item on top of Preview's View menu is black
> and working, while the Drawer item on top of TeXShop's (2.09a)
> Preview menu is dimmed and unaccessible.
>
> > Also, both of them have not only menus but a Drawer icon (which
> > also works).
>
> Thanks, I had never taken notice of this icon in either Preview or
> TeXShop. It is indeed working in both; in particular, it allows the
> Drawer to show up in TeXShop.
>
> This Drawer seems to only display bookmarks, and not to offer a
> choice to view page thumbnails as Preview does.

Yes


>
> BTW, I just noticed something very odd: when using TeXShop to
> visualize a DVI file located in a non-writable directory (for
> example /Library/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/doc/fonts/amsfonts/
> amsfndoc.dvi), the preview window has a different toolbar, taken from
> previous versions of TeXShop: the Back/Forward and Toggle Drawer
> buttons are absent and replaced by the former Typeset button, and the
> Text button is absent.
>
> If the same DVI file is moved to a writable directory first, such as
> the Desktop, the toolbar is the standard one again.
>
> I tried looking for the intermediary PDF file created by TeXShop when
> visualizing a DVI file from a non-writable location: I thought it was
> somewhere inside /var/tmp, but couldn't find it.

There is a directory /private/tmp/TeXShop_Output

created each time TeXShop starts up but it empty (no invisibles either)
>
> Bruno Voisin
>
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