<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Alain,<div><br></div><div>Timothy Van Zandt sent the following to me some time back. I believe it works:</div><div><br></div><div>Hello,<br><br>This is coming a bit late, and I'm not sure whether to reply to this thread<br>or the subsequent "TeXShop Engine" thread. But anyway, here is what I have<br>been doing for a while.<br><br>As noted by others, Distiller doesn't work directly from the command line.<br>But it can be invoked by an applescript, and then you can run the<br>applescript from the command line.<br><br>What I am going to describe is for Acrobat 8; I don't have Acrobat 9 so I<br>can't say if it still works the same way.<br><br>I have an applescript called "acrodist.scpt" as follows:<br><br>------------------------------------------<br>on run argv<br> with timeout of (8 * 60) seconds<br> tell application "Acrobat Distiller"<br> Distill sourcePath item 1 of argv<br> end tell<br> end timeout<br>end run<br>-------------------------------------------<br><br>Then I have an executable shell script called "acrodist"<br><br>-------------------------------------------<br>#! /bin/sh<br><br>osascript ~/bin/acrodist.scpt $1<br>-------------------------------------------<br><br>Then, in the TeXShop preferences, under "Misc", I define the following<br>personal script (all on one line, under "Latex Program"):<br><br>---------------------------------------------------------------<br>simpdftex latex --maxpfb --extradvipsopts "-j0" --distiller<br>(/tvz/bin/acrodist<br>--------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>(To be honest, I don't remember why I included the "-j0" option.)<br><br>And under the Typesetting tab, I set the Default Script to "Personal<br>Script".<br><br><br>Regards,<br><br>tim<br><br><br><br>On 20/01/2010 01:18, "David Arnold" <<a href="mailto:dwarnold45@suddenlink.net">dwarnold45@suddenlink.net</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">All,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Does anyone know how to call Acrobat Distiller from a terminal window (i.e.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">from the command line or a script) on the Mac?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">And if so, has anyone set up an engine with Texshop to call acrobat distiller?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">David.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">TeX FAQ: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">List Reminders and Etiquette: <a href="http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/">http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">List Archive: <a href="http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/">http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">TeX on Mac OS X Website: <a href="http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/">http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">List Info: <a href="http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex">http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br><div><div>On May 21, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Alain Matthes wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>Le 21 mai 2010 à 05:05, David Watson a écrit :<br><br><blockquote type="cite">On May 20, 2010, at 3:01 PM, Margarida Mello wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Dear all,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I am reviving this link (started in October 2009) in the hopes that the situation is different now. Can one set up TeXShop to use Adobe's Acrobat viewer? The reason I'm interested is that the preview is giving me incorrect visualizations in a class of pictures I'm producing. For instance, the code<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">What purpose will these images serve?<br></blockquote><br>I suppose to show a problem with Apple viewer !<br><br><blockquote type="cite">In other words, what is it that you intend to do with these images?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Maybe you just need a new process, and not a new pdf viewer.<br></blockquote><br>??? if the pdf viewer has a bug, why try a new process ?<br> And in this case, the process is simple and clear.<br><br>Adobe reader shows a good result but with Texshop<br> or Skim the result is ugly ! it's difficult to find<br> where is the problem.<br><br><br>Best Regards<br><br>Alain Matthes<br><br><br>----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br>TeX FAQ: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</a><br>List Reminders and Etiquette: <a href="http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/">http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/</a><br>List Archive: <a href="http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/">http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/</a><br>TeX on Mac OS X Website: <a href="http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/">http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/</a><br>List Info: <a href="http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex">http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex</a><br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>