[OS X TeX] hyperref problem

Tue Jun 23 08:37:38 EDT 2020

I have realized something interesting about my hyper ref problem.
I have always used the TeXShop viewer from within TeXShop—that is, I’ve opened a source file in TeXShop and then viewed the pdf file that comes up.
For some silly reason, I just tried my test file OUTSIDE TeXShop—that is, opening either Preview or Adobe Acrobat, and opening only the pdf.
Then the links work fine.
So there is something glitchy in my copy of TeXShop—right?

But now I have a different problem—or actually two.
First, I tried again to use my newly uploaded MacTeX 2020 on the longer document that had originally exhibited my hyperref problem,
and was getting a slew of error messages—looking closely at them, they seem to be problems with pstricks and/or pst-3D before I even get to my document
in the typesetting process.
Second, when I reverted back to my older 2017 TexLive, which I had originally used to generate the longer document, the behavior was different from before,
in that now I got a slew of error messaged for my pictures—which were generated using pst-ode, successfully on previous occasions—and if I did my usual and
typed “r” in the console and hit return, the paper typeset with no pictures.
So now I don’t have an electronic dopy of my paper as I originally managed to typeset it (of course, being naughty and ignoring warnings) and see no way to recover it.

Zbigniew Nitecki
Department of Mathematics
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155

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On Jun 22, 2020, at 20:35, Ross Moore <ross.moore at mq.edu.au<mailto:ross.moore at mq.edu.au>> wrote:

Hi Zbigniew,

On 23 Jun 2020, at 10:23 am, Nitecki, Zbigniew H. <Zbigniew.Nitecki at tufts.edu<mailto:Zbigniew.Nitecki at tufts.edu>> wrote:

I forgot to answer your question: there are only two pages, but those buttons do toggle me between them.

Everything’s fine with that PDF on my system, using viewers:

 1. Acrobat Pro
 2. Preview, from MacOS  (has no link previews)
 3. Preview from TeXshop (with link previews)

Also worth testing is to zoom the window to ~300% and check all your links.
Otherwise, in full page views, some links may seem to be doing nothing
as the current view is already showing where it links to.

Zbigniew Nitecki
Department of Mathematics
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155

telephones:
Office    (617)627-3843
Dept.    (617)627-3234
Dept. fax    (617)627-3966
http://www.tufts.edu/~znitecki/<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/W-_bCVARmOHMr241UGW5vl?domain=tufts.edu/>

On Jun 22, 2020, at 20:09, Ross Moore <ross.moore at mq.edu.au<mailto:ross.moore at mq.edu.au>> wrote:

Hi Zbigniew,

On 23 Jun 2020, at 9:57 am, Nitecki, Zbigniew H. <Zbigniew.Nitecki at tufts.edu<mailto:Zbigniew.Nitecki at tufts.edu>> wrote:

First, when I have just typeset/compiled the pdf (and not done anything with it yet) I can, as I used to, click on the hyperlinked reference, and I jump to the appropriate page.  Once I have done that (just once) what I get the next time I try to click on a link is precisely what your screenshot shows.  The tool is elusive, but even if I do catch it, I can no longer automatically jump to the appropriate new page.  I tried this yet again (that is, I re-typeset the test file)
and again,I could go to page 2 and then click on one of the items on page 1 which are linked, and (even without seeing a preview box) the view jumps to page 1.  Once that has happened, though, it never happens again.  Every subsequent time if I either click or hover over the linked item, I get the preview box, and (I think in either case, but certainly if I click on a link) I get what you are calling the tool-popup, but I am unable to jump to the appropriate page.

Yes, I understood you to be saying this earlier; nevertheless it is good to be able to eliminate other possibilities.
It is a very strange behaviour.
Do you get any changed behaviour if you use the little “back view” arrows to return to page 1 or page 2,
after using the PDF’s hyper-links? That is, the left-facing black triangle in this image:

<Screen Shot 2020-06-23 at 10.04.08 am.png>

What I find strange is that I DO get the desired behavior on first try, but (absolutely consistently) not again, unless I re-typeset, in which case I get my first chance to jump, but never again until the next re-typeset.  Quitting Texshop and coming back to it also doesn’t help.

Can you send a 2-page document, as a PDF.
I don’t believe that there’s anything wrong within the PDF, and it’s somehow all just on your own system.
But as usual, let’s eliminate the PDF itself as a possibility.

Zbigniew Nitecki
Department of Mathematics
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155

telephones:
Office    (617)627-3843
Dept.    (617)627-3234
Dept. fax    (617)627-3966
http://www.tufts.edu/~znitecki/<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/W-_bCVARmOHMr241UGW5vl?domain=tufts.edu/>

Hope the helps.
Stay safe.

Ross

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