[OS X TeX] The pdf does not show up

[Herbert Schulz]

On Nov 26, 2008, at 8:51 AM, André Bellaïche wrote:

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> Le 25 nov. 08 à 23:36, Peter Dyballa a écrit :
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>> Am 25.11.2008 um 22:57 schrieb André Bellaïche:
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>>> Or is it a known bug?
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>> In your TeX file? You are not specific whether the TeX run went OK.  
>> And you did not try to open any (other) PDF file with TeXShop
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> Typesetting is always OK and produces a good PDF file which can be  
> opened with Acrobat. I have tried to open various PDF files with  
> TeXShop, as you and Hernert Schulz have suggested. Some of them, but  
> not all of them can be opened by dragging the icon of the file onto  
> the icon of TeXShop. All can be opened from TeXShop pull-down menu.
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>> One thing has been admitted by Dick Koch maybe two years ago: this  
>> or that version had a memory hole and it could happen that after a  
>> long period and many PDF files TeXShop reached some limit ...
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> Do you mean that TeXShop keeps in its memory some remainder of  
> everyone of the PDF files it has processed?

Howdy,

In some sense, yes.

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>> A more recent version should not show this bug again.
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> TeXShop Updater says that the version I currently use (Version  
> 2.10beta8 (210)) is the most recent one, I suppose for Mac OS 10.4.  
> If I prefer not top update my OS, can this bug be cured by  
> installing a new 2.10beta8 version of TeXShop?
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>> --
>> Greetings
>>
>>  Pete
>
> Thank you,
>
> André
>>

I don't know why it's saying that but TeXShop 2.18 runs under Tiger  
(10.4) so I'd update. You can get it from <http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html 
 >

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)