[OS X TeX] using acrobat distiller with TeXShop

Timothy Van Zandt tvz at stern.nyu.edu
Thu Aug 12 14:49:22 EDT 2004



Joseph C. Slater wrote:

> On Aug 12, 2004, at 11:52 AM, Timothy Van Zandt wrote:
> 
>> Should be simple, but I find no reference to anyone using acrobat
>> distiller 6.0 from the command line or as a substitute for the pstopdf
>> engine in TeXShop. Anyone know how to do this?
> 
> 
> You can use the open command.
> open -a Acrobat\ Distiller\ 6.0.2.app 'filename'
> You can't use non-default options.
> Joe

That's great, thanks. I can run this from the command line, but now find 
that TeXshop's "Personal Script" option in preferences does not allow 
one to substitute an alternate distiller. Am I correct?

tim vz

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