[R-SIG-Mac] upgrade to Mavericks

Stefan Evert stefanML at collocations.de
Fri Apr 25 09:14:15 CEST 2014


On 25 Apr 2014, at 05:15, Richard M. Heiberger <rmh at temple.edu> wrote:

> There are two big negatives is how Preview handles revision to my
> pdflatex documents.
> 
> Previously (OS X Lion), when I ran pdflatex, the pdf file was revised with
> the display showing the same page and the same positioning on the page.
> Now (Mavericks) the display jumps to the top left corner of the current page.
> Since I keep the window focussed only on the part of the page with text,
> that means the top and left margins dominate the new display.  My
> workaround is to construct an if statement that sets the margins to 0
> when I am in revision mode and gives them normal values otherwise.

Hm, this never worked for me properly with Preview, that's why I use TexShop as a PDF previewer.  You can just open the PDF file in TexShop, and configure the "Preview" settings to use "Automatic Preview Update".

-- Stefan



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