[OS X TeX] El Capitan experiences

Gary L. Gray euler at psu.edu
Fri Oct 2 14:28:34 EDT 2015


> On Oct 2, 2015, at 1:19 PM, Richard Koch <koch at uoregon.edu> wrote:
> 
> You are the first person to mention the TeXShop magnifying glass problem. This
> has bothered me since the first El Capitan betas and I reported the bug to Apple
> early on, and later provided them with the source for a short 16 line program 
> duplicating the problem on El Capitan and working perfectly on Yosemite.
> I got no replies to the bug reports.
> 
> Leaving out details, magnification works by creating an NSImage with a PDFImageRep.
> Then I call 
> 
> 	[NSImageDrawInRect: destinationRect fromRect: sourceRect operation: theoperation fraction: thefraction]
> 
> On Yosemite, the PDF in sourceRect is redrawn in destinationRect at a higher resolution. In
> ElCapitan, everything is converted to a bitmap and the bitmap is just magnified. Hence the
> unpleasant result.

Dick,

I had not read your reply before I sent a message to the lists regarding this issue. I apologize for the noise.

With that said, I hope Apple fixes this. Do you have a bug report number that we can help bring to Apple's attention?

Gary




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