[OS X TeX] High Sierra 10.13.4

[Richard Seguin]

Have they fixed the lack of font smoothing in PDFKit? This would definitely affect TeXShop and Skim. I’ve been hesitating to upgrade to High Sierra because of this (and other reasons). I did find this comment from someone dated Feb 9 in the Apple Forums:
> Apple finally answered to my bug report concerning this font smoothing problem. If you're developper you can download the last beta and appreciate improvement. For others, keep believing!! They are working on this bug.
> 
Herb, have you tried 10.13.4 yet?

Richard Séguin

> On Mar 29, 2018, at 8:26 PM, Richard Koch <koch at uoregon.edu> wrote:
> 
> Folks,
> 
> Apple just released an update to High Sierra, 13.4. This is significant if you use TeXShop.
> 
> When the user scrolls the pdf view with a mouse or scroll pad and a new page appears, the Macintosh is supposed to send a PDFViewPageChanged notification. If the view registers to receive this notification, it can use it to update the PageNumber item in the toolbar.
> 
> In High Sierra, the notification was not sent and thus the PageNumber toolbar item did not update during scrolling.
> 
> Recent versions of TeXShop have a workaround for this problem; the workaround updates the PageNumber box once a second, whether the user is scrolling or not. This could affect program performance.
> 
> In TeXShop 3.98 and 3.99, there is code to turn off these workarounds if the user is running 10.13.4 or higher, since
> Apple fixed the original bug.
> 
> There was a related bug. If the user scrolls from page 5 to page 20, and then pushes the "Down" arrow in the Preview toolbar, Preview should scroll to page 21. But since the page changed notification was not sent, it scrolls to page 6. I did not work around this bug, but it was also automatically fixed when Apple fixed their bug.
> 
> Dick Koch

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