[TxMt] Black PDF window which never renders from LaTeX docs; Acrobat Pro to blame?

[Charilaos Skiadas]

Ashley, if you click on a pdf in Finder, does that open with Acrobat,  
or with some other program like Skim, Preview etc?

If it opens with acrobat, then that's your culprit. Select the file  
in the Finder, right click and select "Get Info". Somewhere in the  
middle there is an "Open with" option, that for you would say acrobat  
right now. Change that to another program (I would recommend Skim).  
Then click the "Change All" button.

Actually, simpler workaround is to open the LaTeX preferences in  
TextMate (cmd-opt-comma), and set some other app in the "View in"  
area (I recommend Skim ;) ).

Did I mention I would suggest using Skim as your pdf viewer?

Hope this fixes it, good luck!
Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College

The nitty gritty is as follows. Acrobat thinks that it pretty darn  
special, and sets itself up to handle browser requests for pdf files.  
Unfortunately it doesn't get that to work properly when called  
through a webView embedded in another app, TextMate in this case.  
Hence the black screen you are seeing. Before that, the default  
system way of viewing pdfs in a webView was used, and that was fine.

On Mar 25, 2008, at 2:37 PM, Ashley wrote:

> I am a recent TextMate convert. Part of what swayed me was the  
> range of bundles including LaTeX. I'm also pretty new to LaTeX.
>
> I have been using TextMate to render LaTeX with various engines  
> including XeTeX. It has been working perfectly on everything until  
> now.
>
> Now when I Apple+R to render I get the regular panel for a moment,  
> along with engine output/info, then it goes black but the spinner  
> stays. It "runs" forever like this. The behavior happens on any  
> engine and document content/size. The documents render to PDF fine  
> from TeXShop. None of that setup has changed. I installed the bleed  
> version of TextMate two days ago to see if it might fix it. No  
> difference.
>
> What *has* changed in my setup is I installed the CS3 Adobe web  
> suite (a new paid/registered version, not warez) which includes  
> Acrobat Professional. I am guessing this has hooked/broken some PDF  
> meta-info somewhere.
>
> Any pointers where to look to fix this? Acrobat includes an  
> uninstaller but I'd rather not do that. Is it something that can be  
> updated in the LaTeX bundle? I think this is likely since other  
> LaTeX apps are still rendering to PDF, only TextMate's behavior  
> changed.
>
> Thanks for looking at this!
> -Ashley