[OS X TeX] Problem printing from TeXShop in Tahoe?

[Luís Sequeira]

Hi, Herb

Thank you so much for your answer!

I hardly ever print anything nowadays.
I had to print a document this morning, that I had just typeset in TexShop.
I got an error with just the TeXShop icon, and "Error in printing".
The same document printed fine from Preview, on the same mac and printer.

I am using TeXShop 5.57 on an M4 Pro Macbook Pro 14",
running Tahoe 26.0
The printer is a network printer at my University, one that I have routinely used.

I did not think much about it, until a colleague asked for my help with the exact same problem, on an iMac (not sure if an M1 or M3), also running Tahoe, and he also could print from Preview.

I went back to my office and tried the same on an M1 Max Mac Studio, running 26.0.1. TeXShop version was 5.49 (I think), and the same occurred.
I updated to TeXShop 5.57 and again, same problem.

But THEN a weird thing happened... I notice an older TeXShop version 4.*, and tried that. Guess what... it printed! 
But weirder still: then I tried again on TeXShop 5.57 and it TOO printed!

It seems that running the older version of TeXShop "unblocked" something...

I did not have a chance to test on my laptop, will have to try that tomorrow, as I did not have it with me at the time and now I don't have a printer for testing. 

Thank you again


> On 27 Oct 2025, at 15:12, Herbert Schulz <herbs2 at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On Oct 27, 2025, at 9:46 AM, Luís Fernando Sequeira <lfsequeira at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have seen this happen in three different computers running Tahoe: in TeXShop, press Command-P, select the desired printer, and make adjustments, then click Print.
>> Result: an error window just saying "Error while printing".
>> 
>> But doing the very same thing with same pdf file open in Preview results in printing quite normally.
>> 
>> Can anyone reproduce this, or hint at what may be happening?
>> So far, I have not encountered this error in other applications.
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> LS
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> I haven't seen this problem and I'm using the latest release of Tahoe.
> 
> Is this occasional or does it happen all the time? What Printer(s) are you using (I have a HP Color Laserjet)?
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> herbs2 at mac.com <mailto:herbs2 at mac.com>
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