[OS X TeX] Mysterious behavior of Preview.app

[Andrew Francis]

I have had similar problems, with the wrong fonts used by preview and
TeXshop viewer, but everything appearing correctly in Adobe Reader.  It
seems that the font cache becomes corrupted somehow (apparently Adobe uses
its own fonts).  This can be fixed by installing Onyx
(http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20070), and clearing the
font cache with it.  This then requires a reboot.

This corrects the problem on my machine, but unfortunately not permanently.
My fonts seem to continue to become corrupted and I haven't yet figured out
what process causes the corruption.

I hope this helps.  It comes from a tip from Herb Schulz on the ApfelWiki
site.

Andrew


On 15/5/08 7:12 PM, "Bruno Voisin" <bvoisin at mac.com> wrote:

> Le 15 mai 08 à 10:44, Jin-Hwan Cho a écrit :
> 
>> Actually I'd like to know why Preview.app does not show nfssfont-new-
>> w-cidmap.pdf  correctly
>> but Adobe Reader do show correctly.
> 
> I would think one of the many bugs of PDFKit, the Cocoa framework (if
> that is indeed the correct term) used to display PDF files on OS X (by
> Preview, Mail, Safari, TeXShop, Finder, etc.) except by Adobe
> applications (which include their own PDF rendering routines). I
> imagine xpdf would display the file correctly as well.
> 
> Apparently PDFKit was reengineered considerably between Tiger and
> Leopard (it was moved completely out of CoreGraphics), that might play
> a role here. See for example
> <http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/2007-June/031054.html
>> .
> 
> Bruno
> 
> 
> 
> 
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