Hello,
I have a problem with the Mac OS X internal PostScript to PDF conversion. I believe this is done by the 2D part of the Quartz engine of which of course I know almost nothing. Any application that attempts showing a PostScript file, including Safari, Preview, and Mail, hangs with the beach-ball rotating for ever and so does the command line utility "pstopdf" (no beach-ball there).
When I first bought my iBook a couple of months ago, it didn't have the problem. I installed a few things, among which I suspect teTeX and its PostScript fonts the most, and at some point the problem started. My friend has had a PowerBook for a couple of years and he has had the same problem: from some point on, no PostScript to PDF conversion succeeded.
I can of course use Ghostscript for the conversion which works perfectly fine but when I receive a PostScript file in the mail, the Mail application tries to view it and then I have to "force quit". I am not interested in paying for the iconizer add-on that prevents Mail from showing the attachments. After all, this is a deep-down OS functionality that is out of order and I want a true fix for it, not just a bypassing hack.
Any help will be appreciated,
-- bardia
I have a problem with the Mac OS X internal PostScript to PDF conversion. I believe this is done by the 2D part of the Quartz engine of which of course I know almost nothing. Any application that attempts showing a PostScript file, including Safari, Preview, and Mail, hangs with the beach-ball rotating for ever and so does the command line utility "pstopdf" (no beach-ball there).
When I first bought my iBook a couple of months ago, it didn't have the problem. I installed a few things, among which I suspect teTeX and its PostScript fonts the most, and at some point the problem started. My friend has had a PowerBook for a couple of years and he has had the same problem: from some point on, no PostScript to PDF conversion succeeded.
I can of course use Ghostscript for the conversion which works perfectly fine but when I receive a PostScript file in the mail, the Mail application tries to view it and then I have to "force quit". I am not interested in paying for the iconizer add-on that prevents Mail from showing the attachments. After all, this is a deep-down OS functionality that is out of order and I want a true fix for it, not just a bypassing hack.
Any help will be appreciated,
-- bardia