[OS X TeX] Texmaker

[M. Tamer Özsu]

I believe I have the older one Martin. The content of ps2psf is as follows:

#!/bin/sh
# $Id: ps2pdf13 6300 2005-12-28 19:56:24Z giles $
# Convert PostScript to PDF 1.3 (Acrobat 4-and-later compatible).

exec ps2pdfwr -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 "$@"

My LaTeX installation is a standard MacTeX installation.

Thanks for your feedback.

--Tamer


> From: Martin Costabel <costabel at wanadoo.fr>
> Reply-To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:41:34 +0100
> To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Texmaker
> 
> M. Tamer Özsu wrote:
> []
>> /usr/local/bin/ps2pdf: line 5: exec: ps2pdfwr not found
> 
> It would be interesting to see the contents of the script
> /usr/local/bin/ps2pdf. In older versions I see line 5 as
> 
> exec ps2pdfwr -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 "$@"
> 
> That is, it calls `ps2pdfwr` simply by its name, relying on the PATH
> environment variable to provide the rest of the path to the ps2pdfwr
> executable.
> 
> Now I know nothing about Texmaker, but it would not be surprising if it
> did not set PATH itself and just used what it inherits from the Finder.
> This would explain the failure.
> 
> In newer versions of ps2pdf, I see something like
> 
> ps2pdfwr="`dirname $0`/ps2pdfwr"
> exec "$ps2pdfwr" -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 "$@"
> 
> That is, it prepends its own path prefix to ps2pdfwr and is thus
> independent of PATH settings.
> 
> Which version do you have?
> 
> -- 
> Martin
> 
> 
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