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

[cfrees at imapmail.org]

What about
 	locate pdflatex.fmt
?

- cfr

On Wed 10th Sep, 2008 at 18:02, Nathaniel Pearson seems to have written:

> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:59 PM, <cfrees at imapmail.org> wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday 1010th September, 2008 at 17:44 -0400, Nathaniel Pearson
>> seems...:
>> What do
>>        locate tcfmgr
>>
>
> Gives:
> /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/texconfig/tcfmgr
> /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/texconfig/tcfmgr.map
>
>
>
>> and
>>        kpsewhich fmtutil.cnf
>> give you?
>
>
> Gives:
> /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
>
> Seems strange that it can't seem to find them, even with /usr/texbin now at
> the head of the path list.
>
> I do have fmtutil.cnf files, in:
>>>
>>> /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/
>>> /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var/web2c/
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com
>>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Sep 10, 2008, at 3:39 PM, Maarten Sneep wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  On 10 sep 2008, at 21:50, Nathaniel Pearson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  Ok, I've got /usr/texbin as the lead path in $PATH, have TexShop too
>>>>>
>>>>>> pointing to /usr/texbin for pdftex, and /usr/texbin showing up properly
>>>>>> for
>>>>>> `which latex'.  And I've used Fink commander to remove the Fink tex
>>>>>> installation as well.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> However, upon typesetting in TexShop I still get the following error:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /urs/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex: unrecognized
>>>>>> option `--synctex=1'
>>>>>> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
>>>>>> \write 18 enabled.
>>>>>> %&-line parsing enabled.
>>>>>> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.fmt
>>>>>> mktexfmt: No such file or directory
>>>>>> I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What might I try next?  Thank you to all who have been helping to solve
>>>>>> this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Make all formats?
>>>>>
>>>>> sudo mktexfmt --all
>>>>>
>>>>> (as administrator).
>>>>>
>>>>> Maarten
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Howdy,
>>>>
>>>> Mktexfmt is really a symbolic link to fmtutil so it builds the format
>>>> files
>>>> in the user directory. Unless you you are building personal formats not
>>>> the
>>>> case here) you really should use
>>>>
>>>> sudo fmtutil-sys --all
>>>>
>>>> but once you've done the mktexfmt those formats won't be ``seen'' by TeX.
>>>> Sigh...
>>>>
>>>> The complaint about ``unrecognized option'' is because MacTeX (TeX Live)
>>>> 2007 doesn't have synctex. It is totally harmless!!!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Good Luck,
>>>>
>>>> Herb Schulz
>>>> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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