[OS X TeX] problem with \usepackage{times}

[Jonathan Kew]

On 21 Jun 2007, at 7:43 pm, Raymond N. Greenwell wrote:
>
> To fix this, I tried going to the preferences, under miscellaneous,  
> and changed the TeX Program from xetex to tex, and the Latex  
> Program from xelatex to latex. Now I get the message: "This is  
> pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)" with no error  
> messages. The only small glitch is that the output comes out as a  
> dvi file rather than a pdf file,

This is because you are calling the program as "latex", which  
defaults to DVI output;

> but double clicking on that file causes it to open as a pdf.

if you return to Preferences and set the "LaTeX program" to  
"pdflatex" then you should get direct PDF output....

> I get the warning message "The file was opened with MacOSRoman  
> encoding. The file could not be opened with Unicode (UTF-8)  
> encoding because it was not saved with that encoding."

...and thus avoid this (spurious) message from TeXShop.

JK


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