[OS X TeX] PDF-window in TeXShop: buttons lost

[Peter Pagin]

On 7 jan 2010, at 18.22, Herbert Schulz wrote:

> 
> On Jan 7, 2010, at 11:13 AM, Daniel Becker wrote:
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>> 
>> Am 24.11.2009 um 21:21 schrieb Peter Pagin:
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>>>> Dear all, 
>>>> 
>>>> in the most recent TeXShop (2.28, came with MacTeX 2009), the PDF-window from time to time (but often, happens several times a day) looses all its buttons. I put a screenshot at 
>>>> http://www.wiwi.uni-rostock.de/~wsf8545/images-static/tsbuttons.png
>>>> Quitting and then reopening of TS seems to help usually. 
>>>> 
>>>> Is this only happening to me? Any ideas?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Happens to me as well. No ideas.
>>> 
>>> Peter
>> 
>> Hallo - could those that see the problem from 
>> http://www.wiwi.uni-rostock.de/~wsf8545/images-static/tsbuttons.png , too, try if it happens to them with a configuration of the PDF-Viewer-Window in TeXShop like the one in the screenshot that is attached?
>> 
>> The problem doesn't seem to happen to me if I use the default configuration. Also very few buttons are a way to avoid the disappearance of the buttons. But if I remove the printer symbol and add the one for typesetting, the problem comes back, sooner or later.
>> 
>> Thanks for testing and reporting back -
>> 
>> Daniel
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> I've seen several reports of this problem and I'm guessing it has to do, some how, with the localization you are using.
> 
> I wonder of it helps to disable and then enable the tool bar by clicking on the ``lozenge'' shaped button on the top right of the the window. Hmmm... maybe I asked this before :-(.
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
> 
> 
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Hi Daniel and Herb, 
for me the problem has greatly diminished after switching to TeXShop 2.29 (and reinstalling Snow Leopard and MacTeX 2009 (because of the other problems I had), whether or not that matters). I think it has happened only once since then, when opening an old file, and the full toolbar came back after closing and reopening the document.

Daniel, I do have the printing, typesetting and BibTeX buttons on the PDF-viewer toolbar. Herb, you did ask about clicking on the lozenge before, but on my machine it never change the appearance of the toolbar. One more thing, to thicken the plot: the problem before seemed somehow connected with length of the file name: it occurred much more frequently with short filenames. That might of course be a coincidence.

Best,
Peter