[OS X TeX] Texniscope.app not working properly

[Roussanka Loukanova]

Hi,

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Armin Goralczyk wrote:

> 2007/4/26, M A <markoilcan at gmail.com>:
>> On 4/26/07, Armin Goralczyk <agoralczyk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> >  Texniscope
>> If you only need to preview pdf, as your email suggests, you can try
>> PDFView http://pdfview.sourceforge.net
>> 
>> Texniscope, however, works fine for me. Does it have the same problems
>> when you launch it from Terminal?
>
> Trying to launch from terminal texniscope behaves the same, i.e. it
> launches but the document is not displayed. When I try to open the
> document from within texniscope it gives the message:
> The document tabellen.pdf could not be opened.

I had quite a few cases of similar problems when trying to preview 
<file>.pdf from within emacs with TeXShop. In all those cases, the 
<file>.tex had dvips dependences, i.e. I used simpdftex latex (latex + 
dvips + ps2pdf). It would typeset ok, but trying to View the <file>.pdf 
with "open %o" ("open -a /Applications/TeXShop.app %s") only would launch 
TeXShop without <file>.pdf displayed.

It got it somehow solved by opening <file>.tex in TeXShop, running
Typeset (Tex + Ghostscript) which went ok; and then, mysteriously the 
problem disappeared from emacs.

>
> There are also no recent entries in the console logs. I havn't checked
> emacs --debug -init since it doesn' t seem to be an emacs related
> problem.

I also could not trace the problem: May be some fonts got set up via 
TeXShop. I am curious if you try this too: Typeset the file in TeXShop 
(may be a couple of times), and then try again from Emacs (I use Carbon 
Emacs).

Roussanka

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