[OS X TeX] Sierra and TeXShop

[Pietro CELADA]

hi, Dick and Herb, many thanks for your suggestion.
unfortunately, updating the distribution did not solve
the problem. also, I've never loaded pstricks.

                  Pietro

Pietro Celada
Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica
Università degli Studi di Parma
Parco Area delle Scienze 53/A, I-43124 PARMA (Italy)
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Da: MacOSX-TeX [macosx-tex-bounces at email.esm.psu.edu] per conto di Richard M. Koch [koch at uoregon.edu]
Inviato: lunedì 10 aprile 2017 20.39
A: TeX on Mac OS X
Oggetto: Re: [OS X TeX] Sierra and TeXShop

Pietro,

Please update your TeX Live distribution using TeX Live Utility. This should fix your problem.

I predict you also included the pdftricks library.

This is NOT a TeXShop bug. What happens is that typesetting creates a slightly incorrect pdf
file. In Sierra 10.12.4 (but not earlier), this bug causes Apple's PDFKit to crash, bringing down
TeXShop, Preview, etc.

The bug is caused by loading tikx BEFORE loading pstricks, and then typesetting with pdflatex.
Now when you use pstricks, you are supposed to typeset with TeX + DVI, but some users
include pstricks but don't use it, and then typeset with pdflatex.This used to work, but now
fails.

However, the author of pstricks very very recently fixed this problem, hence the instruction to
upgrade. (Notice that many of your old projects will still fail if you did the same thing, until you retypeset
them.

Apple knows about this bug.

This is another, rarer, bug in PDFKit, so write if this doesn't work.

Dick Koch


> On Apr 10, 2017, at 10:42 AM, Pietro CELADA <pietro.celada at unipr.it> wrote:
>
> dear fellow TeXers,
>
> in spite of several warnings on potential issues,
> I recently upgraded to OSX 10.12.4 (shame on me ...).
>
> as soon as I did, I started experiencing the following
> weird behavior with TeXShop.
>
> when the typesetting stops due to an error, if I write
> E in the log window to go back to the point where the error
> occurred, then TeXShop freezes completely. I can only force
> quitting and then TeXShop keeps on freezing at any successive
> attempt of opening any other TeX file. To have TeXshop working
> again, I've to discard all the auxiliary files (aux, pdf, log
> and synctex) or open the source file using a different editor,
> correct the error and then typeset the file again from the
> command line.
>
> did anyone notice anything similar? and can anyone reproduce
> the problem with the attached mwe file?
>
> the problem seems to be tikz-related: if I comment out
> \usepackage{tikz}, the problem disappears.
>
> I also reinstalled MacTeX2016 (I had 2013) to no avail.
>
> can anyone suggest what has to be done to fix the problem
> or point me in the right direction?
>
> thanks to anyone in advance,
>
>         Pietro
>
>
> MacBook Air 1.4 GHz Intel Core i5, OSX 0.12.4
> MacTeX2016 and TeXShop 3.77
>
>
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