[OS X TeX] Re: TeX and 10.6.7

[Simon Spiegel]

On 12.04.2011, at 15:44, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le 12 avr. 2011 à 15:24, Phil Nelson a écrit :
> 
>> Previously I would extract a few pages from a big document by using 
>> "Print to PDF" from TeXshop, or by extracting pages in Preview and 
>> saving.
>> 
>> My new plan is to let TeXshop create the full document, then extract 
>> pages in Adobe Acrobat.
> 
> Another possibility is the excellent pdfpages LaTeX package, which can extract and recombine in any possible way pages from a PDF file, and also work not only with PDF but also with any file format than pdfTeX and XeTeX can import (PNG, JPG, etc.).
> 
> For an example of use that should appeal to a physicist or to a mathematician, see <http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/~macdonald/aands/> (the TeX source is inside the tar.gz archive). The same approach was used at <http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~aps/research/projects/as/>, though the source is not given.
> 
> That said, I don't know whether/how pdfLaTeX is affected by the OS X bug.

Apple has just released an update which is supposed to fix the font problem.

Simon

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