[OS X TeX] Preview setting

[Justin C. Walker]

> On Aug 24, 2022, at 15:17 , Herbert Schulz via MacOSX-TeX <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu> wrote:
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>> On Aug 24, 2022, at 3:05 PM, Robert Bruner <robert.bruner at wayne.edu> wrote:
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>> Colleagues,
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>> Feel free to ignore this, since it may be a purely Mac issue, not TeX at all, but it interferes with my use of TeX because it interferes with reading the pdf files TeX produces for me.
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>> Say I produce a tex file whose origins are obscured by using 
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>> cat E368.tex > testit.tex
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>> so that no hidden data about the file E368.tex can be tacked onto my test file.   Then I see
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>> ~/papers/rrb/[38]: cat E368.tex >testit.tex
>> ~/papers/rrb/[39]: ls -lt testit*
>> -rw-r--r--  1 rrb  staff   17227 Aug 24 15:51 testit.tex
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>> After TeXing it using TeXShop,
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>> ~/papers/rrb/[40]: open testit.tex
>> ~/papers/rrb/[41]: ls -lt testit.*
>> -rw-r--r--  1 rrb  staff   30353 Aug 24 15:51 testit.log
>> -rw-r--r--  1 rrb  staff   68033 Aug 24 15:51 testit.synctex.gz
>> -rw-r--r--  1 rrb  staff  169380 Aug 24 15:51 testit.pdf
>> -rw-r--r--  1 rrb  staff    1517 Aug 24 15:51 testit.aux
>> -rw-r--r--@ 1 rrb  staff   17227 Aug 24 15:51 testit.tex
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>> it has an xattr, but testit.pdf does not.   But then, invoking Preview on the pdf file gives it one too:
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> Howdy,
> 
> What does `ls -lt@` give? That will tell you what the xattr(s) are.

“matter -l” gives you details about the attributes, although sometimes it’s just hex :-}

HTH

Justin

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