[OS X TeX] Preview crashes when printing

[Ryan Clary]

Rather than printing with Adobe Reader, I have been able to work  
around this problem by outputting to DVI rather than PDF; then using  
dvips and pstopdf to produce the pdf. Preview doesn't seem to crash  
while printing under this workflow. However, this may not be practical  
for some, depending on their use of pdf or eps figures in their  
document.

Ryan Clary

On Mar 28, 2008, at 8:01 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

>
> On Mar 28, 2008, at 4:17 AM, Martin Berggren wrote:
>> Preview crashes when I print the pdf file produced by pdflatexing  
>> the source
>>
>> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>>
>> \documentclass{minimal}
>> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
>>
>> \begin{document}
>>
>> \sffamily\bfseries hej
>>
>> \end{document}
>>
>> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>>
>> According to the log-file, cm-super seems to be chosen in this case.
>>
>> No crash occurs if I comment out \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}  (which  
>> causes the Blue Sky fonts to be chosen) our put  
>> \usepackage{lmodern} (keeping the T1 encoding).
>>
>> Texlive 2007. Mac Leopard, Preview 4.1. Deleting the font cache  
>> (using Onyx) does not help.
>>
>> Weird, right?
>>
>>
>>
>> Martin Berggren
>
>
> Howdy,
>
> There is a known problem in the Leopard printing framework. I was  
> hoping it would be fixed in 10.5.2 but no such luck. There is a  
> temporary fix; you can print the file through the latest Adobe  
> Reader (I hate to say such things).
>
> By the way, the type1 ``Blue Sky'' CM fonts are used by default. The  
> command
>
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
>
> actually forces the use of the CM-Super fonts which are extensions  
> of the CM fonts. CM-Super has many accented characters built in  
> rather than constructed from parts.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
>
>
>
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