[OS X TeX] Installation toasted (altpdftex to simpdftex)

[Gerben Wierda]

On 2 Oct 2005, at 06:01, John Vokey wrote:

> I upgraded to the latest (2005) version of Gerben's packages, and  
> now very little works.  AS long as I stay with pdftex, all seems  
> fine, but if I attempt TeX + Ghostcsript, or mk4ht, or anything  
> else that requires dvi, I get:
>
> This script has been deprecated. Please call
>
>     simpdftex latex --maxpfb fpe.tex
>
> instead.
>
> with no indication in the log as to what made the call.
> (indeed, that is the *entire* log)

You'll need to reset TeXShop preferences. Where it now says

     altpdflatex --maxpfb

it should say

     simpdftex latex --maxpfb

and where it says

     altpdftex --maxpfb

it should now say

     simpdftex tex --maxpfb

and likewise. The altpdftex scripts were already deprecated a year  
ago and that year was for the frontend providers to make sure their  
calling sequence was adapted. Now the depreciation is enforced.

G
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