[OS X TeX] Viewing PDFs under Sierra

Luis Sequeira lfsequeira at gmail.com
Wed Mar 22 05:48:04 EDT 2017


> How about Adobe? Is it fair to infer that it is also suffering from Sierra "improvements"?
> 
> Nicolae
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> 

AFAIK, Adobe Reader does not use PDFKit.
I haven't had it installed on any of my macs for years, so I can't say how it performs.

I have downloaded Renaud's Présentation software and it is working very nicely.

Renaud, great work!

Luís Sequeira


> On Mar 20, 2017, at 12:38 PM, Luis Sequeira <lfsequeira at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Preview is not really suited to display PDF presentations - it has a Fullscreen mode and a Slideshow mode, but not a real presentation mode.
> 
> Skim is much better for this - press Command-Option-P for Presentation - or even TeXShop, with the "Fullscreen (Old Method)" command. I have used Skim for maybe a decade now; in the old days when Mac came with white remotes, Skim allowed me to present hands free without any configuration; it just worked.
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> To make matters worse, Sierra introduced a bug (or a new redrawing method, depending on point of view) that makes advancing slides with overlays notoriously shaking. No more smoothly new material appearing to be added to a slide; the whole redrawing is noticeable... and since is a PDFKit thing, all the above applications are affected by it.
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> Lu?s Sequeira
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