[MacTUG] Blank windows in Preview

Dani Roloson daroloso at mfcf.math.uwaterloo.ca
Wed Aug 24 16:27:11 EDT 2011


> Updated to the latest 10.6.8, a Mac mini shows blank windows for jpg's
> but works fine for pdf's.
> I did a save as png and that also shows as blank.
> Quickview, Safari, and icons show both as fine.

Well this is one of the stupidest bugs I've ever seen.
The console log gets filled with "invalid pixel format"
and "invalid context" errors by the way.
If there isn't an active monitor attached to the machine,
you get the blank windows. I just checked a server back
at 10.6.6 and same thing.

Dani


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