[OS X TeX] pdf font coding problems

[George Gratzer]

For the ignorant:

Your instructions tell me to create a new file in my home  
directory; .MacOSX. Finder does not allow me to do that.

GG

On Dec 22, 2005, at 10:04 AM, Jens Nöckel wrote:

>
> On Dec 22, 2005, at 1:08 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:
>
>> Le 22 déc. 05 à 00:59, Jens Nöckel a écrit :
>>
>>> I have posted the application and installation instructions on my  
>>> web site,
>>> http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~noeckel/Illustrator.html#stripfonts
>>
>> At that page you recommend creation of a file ~/.MacOSX/ 
>> environment.plist. The existence of this file, affecting all GUI  
>> applications, is known to create problems with i-Installer, unless  
>> the user is Unix-litterate and knows exactly what he/she is doing;  
>> as a matter of fact, Gerben Wierda recommends against it.
>>
>> Moreover, the content that you recommend for this file:
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"  
>> "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
>> <plist version="1.0">
>> <dict>
>> 	<key>PATH</key>
>> 	<string>/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/ 
>> sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin</string>
>> </dict>
>> </plist>
>>
>> means Fink binaries will be found before those, in /usr/local/bin,  
>> installed by i-Installer, which is likely to cause problems.
>>
>> If I understood correctly, the purpose of this file is to make  
>> sure the GhostScript binaries are somewhere in the default path.  
>> If these binaries are installed by i-Installer, they are inside / 
>> usr/local/bin, and if the user has agreed to CLI activation, then  
>> the necessary modifications have been done to /etc/profile and / 
>> etc/csh.login, such that /usr/local/bin is added to $PATH. Hence,  
>> in this case, creation of ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist is unnecessary.
>
> Bruno,
>
> thanks for the info - I'll add this to my instructions, for those  
> who use i-installer. I've got various other OSX applications that  
> call scripts, and to get them all on the same page the plist  
> mechanism has worked perfectly well for me. And as I say, it's  
> customizable. I customized it so that fink will come first, because  
> I don't use i-installer.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jens
>
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