[OS X TeX] A problem with TeXShop

["M. Tamer Özsu"]

I did and will monitor it Herb. Thanks much.

==Tamer
--
M. Tamer Özsu
Professor, Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo
https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~tozsu <https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~tozsu>
+1-519-888-4043

> On Jun 3, 2017, at 8:10 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com <mailto:herbs at wideopenwest.com>> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Jun 3, 2017, at 5:55 PM, M. Tamer Özsu <ozsut at mac.com <mailto: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 <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)
> 
> 
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