[OS X TeX] A problem with TeXShop

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Jun 3, 2017, at 5:55 PM, M. Tamer Özsu <ozsut at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Dick. I am not using pstricks, but I am using tikz. The issue is that this does not happen all the time; only when compilation runs into a problem (and even then not always). It is possible that the problematic run is running into a tikz problem somewhere.
> 
> ==Tamer
> --
> M. Tamer Özsu
> Professor, Cheriton School of Computer Science
> University of Waterloo
> https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~tozsu
> +1-519-888-4043
> 
>> On Jun 3, 2017, at 6:53 PM, Richard M. Koch <koch at uoregon.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> I think you have run into an Apple bug, which we reported to Apple several weeks ago.
>> 
>> The bug occurs if you 
>> 
>> 	\usepackage{pstricks}
>> 
>> but then typeset using pdflatex. Of course pstricks requires typesetting with TeX + DVI, but some
>> users have been including pstricks, but not actually using any features of the package. This worked
>> until a recent version of Sierra.
>> 
>> Sometimes, \usepackage{tikz} is also required to trigger the bug.
>> 
>> The resulting pdf displays fine in Adobe Acrobat, but hangs both Preview and TeXShop, because
>> both use PDFKit to display pdf files. Once the pdf is bad, restarting TeXShop will cause it to try
>> to load the pdf again and crash again.
>> 
>> If this isn't it, write again. There is another Apple bug with difference consequences, but
>> this is the most likely in your case.
>> 
>> Dick Koch
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jun 3, 2017, at 3:43 PM, M. Tamer Özsu <ozsut at mac.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I am having an interesting intermittent problem with TeXShop. If it runs into a compilation error, after I end the compilation session, it hangs up. I have to abort it, and subsequent restarts hang up as well. Usually I have to restart the system. This happens on two machines, both of which are on 10.12.5 and TeXShop version 3.77.
>>> 
>>> I wonder if this happens to anyone else. I have not been able to figure out what the cause might be. It started in the last couple of weeks.
>>> 
>>> ==Tamer
>>> --
>>> M. Tamer Özsu
>>> Professor, Cheriton School of Computer Science
>>> University of Waterloo
>>> https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~tozsu
>>> +1-519-888-4043

Howdy,

WE may be running into another problem we've seem recently. If you've been a long term user of TeXShop (i.e., back quite a long time) your (pdf)(la)tex settings may be wron which leads to problems when you run into an error showing up in the Console window.

Please go to the Engine tab of TeXShop->Preferences and click on the two `default' buttons in both the pdfTeX and TeX+dvips+distiller sections of that page (four buttons in all) and see if that fixes the problem.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)