[OS X TeX] Differing PDF output on similarly configured Macs

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jun 11, 2011, at 12:09 AM, Christopher Menzel wrote:

> Greetings OS X TeX folk,
> 
> I am having trouble figuring out why I'm getting funky PDF output on my Macbook air when I use a custom package (jp.sty) together with pgfpages (*not* pdfpages). I also have an iMac. Both are running the latest versions of Snow Leopard and TeXLive 2010.  The purpose of jp.sty is to produce nice 2 page per sheet PDF output. It works flawlessly on both my iMac and on the Linux box that I use mostly as a server.  The output from my iMac can be seen here:
> 
>  http://cmenzel.org/worlds.pdf
> 
> For reasons I have not been able to diagnose, my (as far as I can tell) identically configured Air produces a grotesque transmogrification of this output; the result can be seen here:
> 
>  http://cmenzel.org/worlds-funky.pdf
> 
> Note in particular that I get only every other page printed and the page itself is oddly placed and has a good chunk cut off at the bottom.  Note also that the missing pages appear to be jumbled all together on one page at the end.  I am not seeing anything unusual in the log file on my Air; it looks pretty much identical to the log file produced on my iMac; I just get the unlovely results noted.
> 
> The relevant bits of the preamble are as follows:
> 
> \documentclass[fleqn,leqno,twoside]{article} 
> \usepackage{pgfpages}
> \usepackage{jp}
> \pgfpagesuselayout{2 on 1 shifted}[border shrink=-1.5in,vertical shift=-.35in,horizontal shift=.175in,in shift=.25in]
> 
> If anyone might have a clue what's going on here, I would greatly appreciate it.
> 
> Chris Menzel
> 
> ps: On the off chance that someone is really that interested, I've also attached the 4KB jp.style file. 
> 

Howdy,

Is there any way you could create a minimal but compilable sample file that we could test?

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)