[OS X TeX] TexShop suddenly can't find pdflatex.fmt (even though it's there)

Herbert Schulz herbs at wideopenwest.com
Wed Sep 10 13:36:22 EDT 2008


On Sep 8, 2008, at 3:52 PM, Nathaniel Pearson wrote:

>
> Thanks for helping.  I'm not sure what my $PATH is (sorry, I'm a linux
> amateur here...).  which latex gives:
>
> /sw/bin/pdflatex
>
> Texshop typesetting prefs:
> Default command: latex
> Default script: pdftex
>
> Engine prefs: path settings for pdftex: /usr/texbin
> distller: /usr/local/bin
>
> Does that help explain what's happening?  Thanks,
>
> Nathan
>


Howdy,

Could you tell us the results of the following commands run in Terminal:

which latex

and

echo $PATH

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)





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