[OS X TeX] prosper on a macintosh running TeXShop

[Bruce Kellogg]

I followed the instructions of David Watson and everything went well.
I then processed a simple file that I found on the internet, using  
TeX and Ghostscript,
and the error log went well with one exception: at the end there was
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Output written on sample.dvi (1 page, 10252 bytes).
Transcript written on sample.log.
### /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/dvips -R - 
Poutline  -o /tmp/altpdflatex.1112-1142942725/sample.ps sample.dvi
This is dvips(k) 5.94b Copyright 2004 Radical Eye Software  
(www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2006.03.21:0705' -> /tmp/altpdflatex.1112-1142942725/ 
sample.ps
<tex.pro><pstricks.pro><pst-dots.pro><pst-grad.pro><8r.enc><texps.pro>
<special.pro><color.pro>. <cmsy10.pfb><cmr12.pfb><cmr7.pfb><cmmi10.pfb>
<cmmi12.pfb><cmex10.pfb>[1]
### ps2pdf13 /tmp/altpdflatex.1112-1142942725/sample.ps /tmp/ 
altpdflatex.1112-1142942725/sample.pdf
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/altpdflatex: line  
538: ps2pdf13: command not found
### FAILED to generate /tmp/altpdflatex.1112-1142942725/sample.pdf ()
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I am left with a dvi file. If the problem is that I do not have  
ps2pdf, shouldn't I have been left with
a ps file? Should I simply get ps2pdf from sourceforge and try again?



On Mar 20, 2006, at 11:07 PM, David Watson wrote:

> I downloaded the most recent prosper and ran
> mv prosper-1.00.4.tar.gz ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/ 
> prosper-1.00.4.tar.gz
> cd ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/
> tar zxf prosper1.00.4.tar.gz
>
> This created the proper class file in my local user account's texmf  
> directory.
> Following this, I simply ran:
> texhash
>
> And then, in TeXShop, I changed latexing procedure by going to  
> Typeset>TeX and Ghostscript, and typeset a simple document  
> following the documentation in the doc/ subdirectory of the prosper  
> archive.
> Everything seemed to work wonderfully. I thank you for pointing me  
> in this direction, and I hope this is of some use to you.
>
>
>
> On Mar 20, 2006, at 4:20 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>
>>
>> Am 20.03.2006 um 22:03 schrieb Bruce Kellogg:
>>
>>> All this is for linux. What should I do for TeXShop on my mac?
>>
>> Use /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/latex to uncompress the  
>> archive, creating a new directory (tree) prosper. Then invoke  
>> 'sudo -H texhash.' Maybe there is a problem with a prosper doc  
>> directory left ...
>>
>> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex/README.howtexfindsfiles.txt  
>> might explain some things.
>>
>> I do not know the contents of the prosper archive, so I can't give  
>> you more hints. unzip -l or tar -vtf and a modifier for the right  
>> uncompress method can show you the archive's contents.
>>
>> --
>> Greetings
>>
>>   Pete
>>
>> Windows, c'est un peu comme le beaujolais nouveau: à chaque  
>> nouvelle cuvée on sait que ce sera dégueulasse, mais on en prend  
>> quand même, par masochisme.
>>
>>
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