[OS X TeX] PDFs with gradient mesh applied don't appear

[Richard Koch]

Gary,

AHA.

I put your graphic in a latex file, just as others did, and typeset. Recall that
my main screen is a thunderbolt display, but it is attached to a Retina Display Mac.

When I typeset, the full illustration appeared in the Preview Window, which appeared
on the thunderbolt display. Then I just dragged this window to my Retina Mac.

When I did, the full picture appeared momentarily on the Retina machine,
AND THEN THE SURFACE VANISHED, leaving the remaining pieces as in
your illustration. No doubt it vanished when a redraw was triggered.

When I dragged back to the thunderbolt, the surface was momentarily missing.
Then it appeared, again as a redraw was triggered.

Next I quit TeXShop and selected "Get Info". Then I clicked "Open in Low Resolution"
so TeXShop would magnify images to display on the Retina display, rather than
reimaging. Then when I dragged the window from the thunderbolt to the Retina Mac,
the surface DID NOT VANISH.

So this is a problem with Apple's pdf code for high resolution. Note that TeXShop
has no "high resolution" code. Instead, we are talking about code in PDFKit.

This is clearly a bug in Apple's code. Tomorrow I'll report this bug to Apple.
It would be useful if you could send me a detailed report about how you
created that image, because details bring better responses from Apple's
engineers. I'll send the illustration from your email unless you object.

Dick Koch

On Nov 19, 2012, at 1:12 PM, "Gary L. Gray" <glgray at me.com> wrote:

> On Nov 16, 2012, at 5:44 PM, Victor Ivrii <vivrii at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
>> \usepackage{graphicx}
>> \begin{document}
>> 
>> \includegraphics{C10S3Fig-EulerAngles-1.pdf}
>> 
>> 
>> \end{document}
>> 
>> 
>> works fine. It would be useful to see a tex source
> 
> Thank you everyone. I am finally getting back to this after some other things came up late on Friday and that kept me busy all weekend. I just tried the source Victor shows above and I still do not see the blue shape. This is with a fully updated TeX Live 2012 on a retina MBP running a fully updated OS X 10.8.2. Could it be the graphics card in this machine (I don't see it in Preview either since it also uses PDFKit)?
> 
> Anyone else out there have a retina MacBook Pro that can do this simple test?