[OS X TeX] Re: Preview crashes when printing (Martin Berggren)

[Martin Berggren]

> 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)



The weird thing is that the crash is a recent phenomenon (the same  
file printed fine in February), and I have only seen the crash when I  
use cm-super bold sans serif... Any other flavor of cm does not give  
any problem (as I detail above). The fix is easy for me, I can use  
Blue Sky (or lmodern if I need Swedish letters), but it would feel  
better to know the cause; I would not be surprised if it's a bug that  
will show up somewhere else.



Martin Berggren

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