[OS X TeX] Delays in viewing beamer slides

Thu Jan 10 13:11:54 EST 2019

Install skim.app on the laptop.

On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 1:37 PM Nitecki, Zbigniew H. <
Zbigniew.Nitecki at tufts.edu> wrote:

> Dick and Nicolae:
>
> Thanks for the information.  In my situation, it seems I am at the mercy
> of others, since the session at which I will be talking will use a single
> laptop to project all the speakers’ slides (from thumb drives).
> Maybe I will forward your emails to the session organizers, and they may
> use one of the workarounds which you suggested.
>
>
> Zbigniew Nitecki
> Department of Mathematics
> Tufts University
> Medford, MA 02155
>
> telephones:
> Office    (617)627-3843 <(617)%20627-3843>
> Dept.    (617)627-3234 <(617)%20627-3234>
> Dept. fax    (617)627-3966 <(617)%20627-3966>
> http://www.tufts.edu/~znitecki/
>
>
>
>
> On Jan 4, 2019, at 12:12, Richard Koch <koch at uoregon.edu> wrote:
>
> Zbigniew,
>
> This is a bug I reported to Apple over a year ago. After a delay, I
> received a note from them that my report was a "duplicate bug report." This
> cut me off from further reports about the bug, because to preserve
> developer privacy Apple sends information about bugs only to the initial
> reporter and not to those duplicating the report.
>
> All I can suggest is that TeX users write Apple directly. There is no
> official channel for doing this unless you are a developer. If you are at a
> university, it might be useful to contact your computer support people and
> ask them to pursue the matter with Apple.
>
> To be fair, Apple gave very useful information about other bug reports I
> submitted.  I've found Mojave to be stable and responsive. But then, I
> never enter single page mode.
>
> -----------------------------
>
> Let me, however, recommend a program named "Presentation" by Renaud
> Blanch. See
>
> http://iihm.imag.fr/blanch/software/osx-presentation/
>
> This is a free program which can display Beamer slides. It provides many
> desirable features; for instance the presenter can see an overview of the
> slides while selecting one to display. But I mention it particularly
> because it is immune from the bug.
>
> Dick Koch
>
>
>
> On Jan 4, 2019, at 8:52 AM, Nitecki, Zbigniew H. <
> Zbigniew.Nitecki at tufts.edu> wrote:
>
> I am not sure that this is a TeXShop issue, but wonder if anyone has a
> suggestion for a workaround.
>
> I am trying to prepare some slides for a talk, and went back to a set I
> prepared about a year ago for a similar talk via beamer.
> When I view this using Preview, I find that every time a slide changes,
> there is a delay of maybe a second,
> during which the display becomes fuzzy before coming into focus.  This is
> of course highly distracting, and is not a behavior I recall
> (nor one I would have imposed on my audience) from a year ago.  I am not
> sure how to provide a “minimal example”, but wonder
> if anyone can suggest where to look for the source of this behavior, and
> even without that, how to avoid the behavior itself.
>
> Zbigniew Nitecki
> Department of Mathematics
> Tufts University
> Medford, MA 02155
>
> telephones:
> Office    (617)627-3843 <(617)%20627-3843>
> Dept.    (617)627-3234 <(617)%20627-3234>
> Dept. fax    (617)627-3966 <(617)%20627-3966>
> http://www.tufts.edu/~znitecki/
>
>
>
>
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> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Nicolae Garleanu <garleanu at berkeley.edu>
>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Delays in viewing beamer slides
>
> Date: January 4, 2019 at 12:34:03 EST
>
> To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
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>
> Hi Zbigniew,
>
> I have been struggling with this issue for at least a year now, for all my
> documents. I just had to give up on the advantages of single-page mode.
> Even in continuous-page mode, if I go directly to the last page, sometimes
> the second-to-last, too, the page is fuzzy for half a second or so.
>
> That said, there is no issue when projecting the pdf output of slides
> using Acrobat. Thus you do not need to worry about imposing that behavior
> on your audience.
>
> Nicolae
>
>
>
> On Jan 4, 2019, at 18:12, Richard Koch <koch at uoregon.edu> wrote:
>
> Zbigniew,
>
> This is a bug I reported to Apple over a year ago. After a delay, I
> received a note from them that my report was a "duplicate bug report." This
> cut me off from further reports about the bug, because to preserve
> developer privacy Apple sends information about bugs only to the initial
> reporter and not to those duplicating the report.
>
> All I can suggest is that TeX users write Apple directly. There is no
> official channel for doing this unless you are a developer. If you are at a
> university, it might be useful to contact your computer support people and
> ask them to pursue the matter with Apple.
>
> To be fair, Apple gave very useful information about other bug reports I
> submitted.  I've found Mojave to be stable and responsive. But then, I
> never enter single page mode.
>
> -----------------------------
>
> Let me, however, recommend a program named "Presentation" by Renaud
> Blanch. See
>
> http://iihm.imag.fr/blanch/software/osx-presentation/
>
> This is a free program which can display Beamer slides. It provides many
> desirable features; for instance the presenter can see an overview of the
> slides while selecting one to display. But I mention it particularly
> because it is immune from the bug.
>
> Dick Koch
>
>
>
> On Jan 4, 2019, at 8:52 AM, Nitecki, Zbigniew H. <
> Zbigniew.Nitecki at tufts.edu> wrote:
>
> I am not sure that this is a TeXShop issue, but wonder if anyone has a
> suggestion for a workaround.
>
> I am trying to prepare some slides for a talk, and went back to a set I
> prepared about a year ago for a similar talk via beamer.
> When I view this using Preview, I find that every time a slide changes,
> there is a delay of maybe a second,
> during which the display becomes fuzzy before coming into focus.  This is
> of course highly distracting, and is not a behavior I recall
> (nor one I would have imposed on my audience) from a year ago.  I am not
> sure how to provide a “minimal example”, but wonder
> if anyone can suggest where to look for the source of this behavior, and
> even without that, how to avoid the behavior itself.
>
> Zbigniew Nitecki
> Department of Mathematics
> Tufts University
> Medford, MA 02155
>
> telephones:
> Office    (617)627-3843 <(617)%20627-3843>
> Dept.    (617)627-3234 <(617)%20627-3234>
> Dept. fax    (617)627-3966 <(617)%20627-3966>
> http://www.tufts.edu/~znitecki/
>
>
>
>
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