MacOS – Preview and Skim are not opening Latex compiled pdf file

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I am using latexmk to compile file written in Latex in OS X (macOS Sierra : 10.12.4) to pdf.

Recently I am facing that such pdf files are not being opened through Preview or Skim pdf editor! Earlier I didn't have such an issue.

Any fix?

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My machine has MacOS 10.12.5 and MacTeX-2016 and it works fine, both with Preview and Skim. I used the command-line in Terminal. Here are what latexmk --version and pdflatex --version report on my system, respectively.

Latexmk, John Collins, 22 April 2016. Version 4.45

pdfTeX 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.17 (TeX Live 2016)
kpathsea version 6.2.2
Copyright 2016 Han The Thanh (pdfTeX) et al.
There is NO warranty.  Redistribution of this software is
covered by the terms of both the pdfTeX copyright and
the Lesser GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file
named COPYING and the pdfTeX source.
Primary author of pdfTeX: Han The Thanh (pdfTeX) et al.
Compiled with libpng 1.6.21; using libpng 1.6.21
Compiled with zlib 1.2.8; using zlib 1.2.8
Compiled with xpdf version 3.04

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I have tested this a bit in my free time today, and it seems that subprocess.call(['open','-a','Preview',path]) is your best option for opening PDFs in Preview from Python.

I'm still not sure why using the absolute path to Preview doesn't work, though.

I am trying to find a way to get a process PID based on its window title in AppleScript. For example, if you were to open a document named "Test.png" in Preview with that command, it would spawn a Preview window with the window title "Test". I am hoping there is a way to get the PID of this process using the window title, but I'm not sure yet.

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You might want to check out this question: What window management options exist for OS X?

My recommendation, if you want it to be fully automatic, is to use Slate.

Slate is no longer in active development, but it still works and is highly customizable. Put this code in a .slate.js file in your home directory:

var rightHalf = slate.operation("move", {
   "x" : "screenSizeX/2+screenOriginX",
   "y" : "screenOriginY",
   "width" : "screenSizeX/2",
   "height" : "screenSizeY"
});
slate.on("windowOpened", function(event, win) {
    if (win.app().name() === "Preview") {
        win.doOperation(rightHalf);
    }
});

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