[OS X TeX] latexit issues

[Charilaos Skiadas]

Just a shot in the dark here, but does the problem persist if you  
close Latexit, then go to the terminal and run:

open -a Latexit

and then try from this opened Latexit? This would make Latexit have  
the same path settings as the terminal, and if it makes a difference  
then we can perhaps start narrowing down the problem.

Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College

On Jun 14, 2008, at 9:43 AM, dfen2752 at mail.usyd.edu.au wrote:

> Thanks everyone for your help :) But no luck.
>
> I removed the plist, and all the properties have been reverted back to
> default. But no luck there. I've even tried downloading it from the
> website, and reinstalling it, but it's still the same 'unexpected  
> error'.
>
> Jan, when you installed mactex, did you install all the bundled  
> software
> (texshop?) and all the extra modules (ghostscript and stuff)?
>
> does latexit require any of the bundled software to run, because i  
> didn't
> install any of them...as Textmate is good enough for me.
>
> it shows a different path because i changed the link in the  
> preference to
> the alias '/usr/texbin/pdflatex' to the file it was linked to. but  
> that
> changed it back now.
>
> i've run the 'which' command on all the underlying programs  
> (pdflatex, gs,
> ps2pdf), and they all point to the correct location. (and no, it  
> wasn't
> obvious. i completely forgot about that command)
>
> i get the exact same output when i run the ls -l command. all the
> permissions seem fine as well.
>
> The weird thing is that the error says "error while processing  
> pdflatex",
> but when i run 'pdflatex -file-line-error -interaction nonstopmode'  
> on the
> temporary file from terminal, it works. This is the ls dump of the
> temporary folder:
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 derek  staff   307B 14 Jun 23:41 latexit-1.tex
> -rw-r--r--  1 derek  staff    70B 14 Jun 23:16 latexit-paths
>
> Are those file permissions correct? I'm stumped for ideas.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Derek
>