Hi All, I would like to report that today I experience no problems. I made the following two steps:
- Installed xorg-server because I was not sure if the +quartz variant on poppler had something to do with it and moreover I had not updated XQuartz on my system (see e.g. https://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2013-November/033821.html), so I decided to go with the version that comes with MacPorts. - Selfupdate and upgraded the outdated. Thank you all, Hope this can be of help to others. Best regards, Dimitris On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Chris Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users > _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
