Hi all, I have run into this annoying problem after upgrading to Tiger. The Preview application fails to open a postscript file. It attempts to do the...
... Yeah, I get that too. I figured it was something about the file, so I hadn't tried logging out. I generally save the file to disk and view with "gv", or...
Nimesh, Can you reliably get Preview to sometimes work, but sometimes fail, on *the same file*? You said that it seems to work again after logging out and...
[cutting stuff about that problem with some postscript files in Preview] Some useful diagnostic information might be provided by Console.app. See if it reports...
Thanks everyone for your replies. Jim- regarding your suggestion of TeXShop, I believe this uses the ps2pdf program. Eric- after logging off and on again,...
Hi all, Back in June I mentioned that xgterm running under Tiger would not read back key presses. This created a problem when xgterm was used as a plotting...
Hi all, I've been rather busy lately, so have been rather lax in keeping the website ( http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~nridge/osxastro/ ) up to date, in particular...
Hi Naomi, The Karma visualisation suite (kvis, kpvslice etc..) works under Tiger, and that was a new install. Best wishes, Jenny. ... -- Dr. Jennifer Hatchell...
Jennifer Hatchell
hatchell@...
Nov 7, 2005 9:20 am
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Hi, I have a student who is trying to install pgplot via fink on a new Tiger system, and is having problems. I haven't had the machine to play with...
... I ended up having so many problems with the pgplot installation from fink that I ended up applying the patches myself and keeping a compilable version of...
Juan Cabanela Ph.D.
jecabanela@...
Nov 23, 2005 2:22 am
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Hi Naomi, I had a lot of trouble installing PGPLOT (under OSX 10.3). I solved this by installing FTOOLS, which comes with a precomplied version of libpgplot.a...
Hi all, Apologies to those of you who received spam via this group this morning. We had been happily safe from it up until now. I have changed the group...
I posted about this last year, but as far as I am aware, the problem still exists when transferring a powerpoint file made on a Mac to a PC, so I thought it...
Curious to know whether there exist reports regarding everyone's favorite astro applications on the newer Intel-based macintoshes. X11? IRAF/ds9? IDL? ...
Bernie Walp
bernie@...
Jan 25, 2006 9:42 pm
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... X11 will no doubt be recompiled by Apple and work out of the box. IRAF has reports from http://spac-21.rice.edu/maciraf that a port is planned as soon as...
... Actually, it sounds like it may take a lot more time than we might hope. According to rumors passed along on the IDL newsgroup, RSI has apparently said...
Marshall Perrin
mperrin@...
Jan 26, 2006 7:47 pm
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Hi All, I have an outstanding undergraduate student that is looking for a summer internship in Astronomy. All of the REU programs that I have found require the...
Dear Jeff, The Experimental Astrophysics Group at Fermilab, which is a member of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, SNAP, and the Blanco Dark Energy Survey, has ...
Hey, all. I recently went through heck getting sm (Super Mongo) working on OS 10.4.4 with gcc 4.0.2 and I wanted to share my experience just in case anyone...
Dear osxastro group, I need a laptop computer and I am pretty convinced that a mac is the way to go. However, I have not used a mac before and then they came...
My understanding is that IDL will not be avaliable on the new Intel platforms for a year at least. So if IDL is important you might consider the powerpc...
Tyler L. Bourke
tbourke@...
Feb 22, 2006 5:17 pm
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... This is an excellent question and will certainly help determine when the right time is to purchase an Intel Mac for doing astronomy. I just ordered a...
... I can only speak for CIAO, and even then only unofficially, but - given all that hand-waving - I can safely tell you that we don't yet have an official...
As far as I know (I haven't yet done any testing) most PPC applications will run on the intel in this Compatibility Mode that Apple calls Rosetta. We don't...
I can't speak for any of the aforementioned software packages, but there are plans here at the Joint Astronomy Centre to make a release of the Starlink ...
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