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I was wondering if people here using the TikZ editor TikZiT are experiencing issues with said tool after upgrading to OS X Yosemite? I can't get it to compile a preview, and I am not able to see the TikZ code anywhere in the GUI. I have followed the online TikZiT manual.

My MacTeX distribution is 2014, my TikZiT version is 0.8 (0.8.417). Whenever I hit ⌘+r, TikZit will only show a greyed out preview window. Any ideas? I'd be also thankful for any pointers to other TikZit WYSIWYG-style editors that are known to run under Yosemite.

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Sebastian Sulger
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  • Since this is Yosemite, try launching TikZiT via the command line, as shown here. – Adam Maxwell Jan 28 '15 at 21:16
  • @AdamMaxwell Thanks - I just tried this. Terminal shows an error when I try to compile my preview image: CoreAnimation: warning, deleted thread with uncommitted CATransaction; set CA_DEBUG_TRANSACTIONS=1 in environment to log backtraces. – Sebastian Sulger Jan 29 '15 at 10:50
  • Does it work, though? Sometimes CoreAnimation warnings are relatively harmless (or it could be an Apple problem). Since you're using MacTeX, make sure /usr/texbin is in your $PATH when launching in Terminal. – Adam Maxwell Jan 29 '15 at 16:56
  • @AdamMaxwell Yes - I made sure /usr/texbin is in my $PATH when I tried this. Still, nothing. I ended up copying over an example from texample.net and contacting the author of TikZiT about the problem. Waiting to hear back from them. Thanks! – Sebastian Sulger Feb 01 '15 at 13:58

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I used the following workaround: I renamed TikZiT.app/Contents/MacOS/TikZiT to TikZiT.app/Contents/MacOS/TikZiT-bin and created the executable file TikZiT.app/Contents/MacOS/TikZiT with the following content

#!/bin/bash

export PATH=/usr/texbin/:$PATH
exec ${0%/*}/TikZiT-bin

It is working for me.

Henri Menke
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euri
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