I'm still interested in knowing if the 1.1.13 release fixes the problem if
you have accessibility turned on, because you should be able to turn on
accessibility without crashing Skim.
I also wonder which application is actually using this accessibility. I hope
it's not a virus.
Christiaan
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Houmiya Houmiya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Christiaan,
> Thanks a lot for the reply and sorry for my late reply. As you had
> suggested it was something to do with accessibility. For some reason unknown
> to me, the accessibility was active on my machine. I turned it off and Skim
> is as robust as a rock. I really love it and it is part of my daily (and
> nightly) workflow of writing my thesis.
>
> Cheers and thanks again.
>
> Houmiya
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 4:45 AM, Christiaan Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
>> The crash has something to do with accessibility. We do some hacking
>> there, because Apple has included a very incomplete implementation,
>> OTHm the crash is happening in Apple's implementation. And we already
>> do this since 1.1.5. My guess is that it's an Apple bug, especially as
>> it happens on Tiger (PDFKit on Tiger is very buggy).
>>
>> Do you have accessibility turned on (in the Universal Access system
>> preferences), and do you have some kind of accessibility device on
>> (like a screen reader)?
>>
>> Christiaan
>>
>> On 22 Sep 2008, at 9:44 AM, Houmiya Houmiya wrote:
>>
>> > Hello List,
>> >
>> > I have been using Skim for quite some time and I am very happy with
>> > it. The problem is that recently (I can't remember from when) after
>> > compiling my TeX file using PDFLaTeX, the Skim window updates and
>> > then most of the time Skim crashes. I have tried to figure out what
>> > is causing it, but no luck.
>> >
>> > I have made a minimal TeX file that crashes Skim (not all the time
>> > though) and I have attached the Crash Report as well. It seems that
>> > it is threat 0 in Skim is the one that crashes, but I have no idea
>> > what that means.
>> >
>> > I would really appreciate if somebody can shed a light on this
>> > issue. I removed Skim and re-installed it, but the problem is still
>> > there. Also, I have to mention that I am using Textmate to compile
>> > the tex file.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Houmiya
>> >
>>
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