- MacGhostView 4.5 is an independent suite of programs for viewing postscript files and converting postscript files to other formats. It is used by macdvi to display included eps graphic files and is used by maketexpk to convert postscript fonts to pk format.
- 2) requires Mac OS X 10.3.5 or later or a helper like MacGhostview 3) only supported on MacOX 8.6 up to 9.2.2 4) only the preview can be displayed 5) requires QuickTime 3 or later 6) requires QuickTime 4 or 5 7) requires Mac OS X 10.1 or later; exports only raster PDFs.
Postscript — use MacGhostView (open -a MacGhostView) or gv. Preview-Latex — to enable the automatic LaTeX preview of math on screen, install the preview-latex package from CTAN, make sure you have ghostscript installed, and check Instant Preview under Preferences - Look & feel - Graphics.
Contents:Preamble:
Who says there's no TeX for classic MacOS? Well, lots ofpeople, actually. So this page is here to set them right.
[But also check out PennState University's MacOS TeX/LaTeX website. As the namesuggests, but more comprehensive than this page--the material belowonly really applies to Classic MacOS.]
Note: 'Classic MacOS', as opposed to MacOS X, refers toApple Computer's Macintosh Operating System (OS) version 9 andearlier. (But it usually doesn't refer to anything beforeversion 8, prior to which, the Macintosh operating systems wereknown as 'System n' rather than 'MacOS n':so, for example, 'System 7' but 'MacOS 8'.)
Some links to start with:
- <http://www.ctan.org/> the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network. For allyour TeX/LaTeX needs.
- <http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/CTAN/> the CTAN mirror at AARNet.
LaTeX Distributions:
OzTeX, written by Andrew Trevorrow<http://www.trevorrow.com/>,is one of three LaTeX implementations for Classic MacOS that I knowof. Of the other two, one is a commercial version (called Textures)by Blue Sky Research <http://www.bluesky.com/>,and the other is a shareware version called CMacTeX, by Kiffe &Kiffe <http://www.kiffe.com/>.
CMacTeX is only 30 MB for a full installation, and from what Iunderstand, handles PostScript/PDF conversions a lot better. OzTeXseems to be what most people use, however.
Generating PDFs:
Kiffe & Kiffe have written 'PDFTeX for OzTeX', whichallows you to convert TeX documents to PDF directly (as opposed toproducing DVI files) from within OzTeX.
(PDF is a cross-platform, industry-standard format for documents whichcontain text, images, graphics, equations and hyperlinks. PDF standsfor Portable Document Format. On most platforms,you can use Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free product, to view PDF files. Download it from<http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html>.)
I've successfully used PDFTeX to generate PDF files from OzTeX,but it's fiddly to get working properly (figures & equations areespecially difficult), so I wouldn't recommend it to a novice.
An alternate, much simpler, method for producing PDFs from pretty muchany Mac application, is PrintToPDF: a MacOS 9 shareware'virtual' printer written by James W.Walker<http://www.jwwalker.com/>. Once installed, print any document (via PrintToPDF instead of your usualprinter) to produce a PDF of that document. There are limitations(such as no font embedding), but it's a quick and easy way of generatingPDFs from DVI files (print to it from within OzTeX).
A MacOS X commercial solution, is PStill. Get it from<http://www.stone.com/PStill/PStill.html>.
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Another MacOS X solution is TeXShop, written by Richard Koch& Dirk Olmes,<http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html>. TeXShop is actually a TeX previewer for MacOS X, and since PDFis the native file format for MacOS X, conversion to PDF isbuilt-in.
Downloading LaTeX:
OK, you can grab Textures from the CTAN AARNet mirror at:
<http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/CTAN/systems/mac/textures/>
similarly, you can get CMacTeX from:
<http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/CTAN/systems/mac/cmactex/>
and, of course, OzTeX as well:
<http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/CTAN/systems/mac/oztex/>
This last contains all the files you need for a complete OzTeXinstallation. They're in stuffit 1.5.1 format (except for'Read-Me'), and they come to 15 MB compressed, or 90 MB for afull install.
Documentation & Help:
For LaTeX documentation and general help, you can't go past 'The(Not So) Short Introduction to LaTeX 2e',a PDF document (see above), which contains 99% of the informationyou'll need in order to write a PhD thesis in LaTeX (I should know). The remaining 1% is specialised information; you can probably get awaywithout knowing it (unless you really are writing a thesis inLaTeX, and not just saying that to sound cool :-)
In particular, the specialised stuff I needed for my thesis was aboutincluding figures in LaTeX. This is only briefly documentedin the Short Intro, but I found a more specialised document, 'UsingImported Graphics in LaTeX 2e', whichcontains more than you ever wanted to know about graphics inclusion. It's also in PDF format.
These two documents alone have answered every question I've ever hadabout doing stuff in LaTeX--no need to buy any books. The first iscalled 'lshort.pdf', the second is called 'epslatex.pdf'. They're on the AARNet mirror at:
<http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/CTAN/info/>
PostScript:
Kiffe & Kiffe put out 'MacGhostView', the best ClassicMacOS PostScript viewer I've used to date.
Also check out thePrepress Panic Page, a websiteall about PostScript and PDF, including adatabaseof known errors for PostScript. (A useful site indeed, for thosedays when your thesis draft generates PostScript errors, and a hard deadlinelooms. Don't ask )-:
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