Re: [Alphacocoa-devel] [EXT] Alpha Release 9.2 (Gianfar)

[David C. <da...@pa...>]

Hmmm.

Well, ALL my files are in DropBox (on my startup disk, which is an SSD).  Dropbox is a central component of my multi-location and multi-machine existence.  I thought that might be it at first, because when I copied a file to my desktop it tex’d and viewed fine in Alpha.  But then I went back to the copy of the identical file in Dropbox, THAT tex’d fine, too.  So some files (just not the first few I tried) preview in Alpha fine, and others don’t.  So I stripped it down to

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Document
\end{document}

I did a few experiments and have found something pretty suggestive: if the path to the file contains a folder with spaces in the folder name the file won’t display in Alpha.  As soon as I move the /same/ file into a folder with no spaces anywhere in the path, it displays in Alpha.  (My user folder name has no spaces in it, so I don’t know how far up that goes.)

David Craig



> On Oct 21, 2020, at 10:55 PM, Bernard Desgraupes <bde...@or...> wrote:
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> thanks for the additional information.
> Indeed I see the same problem if I typeset a tex file that is in DropBox : the pdf is blank. Ditto if I try to visualise any pdf from the dropbox in an Alpha pdfviewer. Just tried on High Sierra.
> 
> I have to understand why...
> 
> David, on what kind of volume is your pdf file ?
> 
> Bernard
> 
> 
>> Le 22 oct. 2020 à 07:37, Christopher Skeels <Chr...@un... <mailto:Chr...@un...>> a écrit :
>> 
>> Hi Bernard,
>> 
>> For what it is worth I get a similar outcome to David if I typeset my CV.  It may just be Alpha laughing at me, but that is the only file that has caused me such problems.  It all lives in Dropbox but the pdf that is produced is perfectly readable by Skim, Preview, and Acrobat Reader,  just not Alpha’s in-built viewer.  As I said, other things come up fine, so I hadn’t written sooner because I wasn’t sure what I could tell you.  I attach a screen shot of the window.  Just to reiterate, this is not the norm, just something that my CV does (every time I try).  Otherwise, I have been happily using the new features since the beta was released.
>> 
>> Stay well.
>> 
>> Cheers, Chris.
>> 
>> 
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David Craig


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