Hi, latex is working just fine for me on OS X 10.9, PDFs view just fine. My poplar installation is the default one though, as I don’t use OKular, Kile et. al.
Chris On 11 Nov 2013, at 1:45pm, Dimitris Diochnos <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All, > > I am sending this email as it appears that the recent version of > texlive that comes with MacPorts does not generate valid pdf > documents, or at least Preview is not able to handle them correctly. > > I have installed poppler with the extension +qt4+quartz since I also > wanted Okular and Kile to be installed through MacPorts. > > In a nutshell, even though one can compile with "latex" the .tex file > and then use a command of the form "dvipdf/dvipdfm/etc" in order to > generate the pdf file from the dvi file that was generated using > "latex", then attempting to open the pdf file with a command of the > form: > > open myFile.pdf > > returns a > > Trace/BPT trap: 5 > > and the file never opens. Moreover, if one first opens Preview and > then opens the file through the route "File>Open...", even if the > document appears on the screen, one can not scroll! > > The same problem with the pdf file remains when one is using directly > "pdflatex" for generating the pdf file, or even if someone uses XeTeX > and the command "xelatex" for the generation of the document. > > Quite surprisingly, opening the dvi file with Okular, one is actually > able to scroll through the document. > > Finally, pdf files that I have generated in the past using Mountain > Lion and the respective texlive ports through MacPorts back when I was > using Mountain Lion, I can actually open them from the command line > using a command of the form > > open myFile.pdf > > Generating a pdf file using the following simple document has the > issues that I describe above: > $ cat basic.tex > \documentclass[letterpaper,11pt]{article} > \begin{document} > \title{A title} > \author{An author} > \date{A date} > \maketitle > \begin{abstract} > Abstract goes here > \end{abstract} > \section{Introduction} > Hi there! > \end{document} > $ > > Is anyone else also experiencing such problems? I honestly believe > there is something wrong with the current ports even if everything > managed to compile during the installation of Kile and all of Kile's > dependencies. > > Best regards, > Dimitris > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
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