[OS X TeX] Preview crashes when printing

[Herbert Schulz]

On Mar 28, 2008, at 8:00 AM, Ryan Clary wrote:
> 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)
>>
>>
>>


Howdy,

I much prefer using pdftex, if possible, for processing because the  
microtype package doesn't work with the latex->dvips->ps2pdf work flow  
and I really like the beauty of the document produced. That's also the  
main reason I don't do more work with xetex.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)