[OS X TeX] Linux --> Mac: Beamer and "Non-PDF special ignored!"

[Rick Chartrand]

After comparing my .log file with Dick Koch's for a Beamer file with one
empty frame, I found 4 relevant differences:
(1) his says "\write18 enabled", mine says "restricted \write18 enabled".
This prompted me to try compiling with sudo pdflatex, and this actually
works, for the empty file and for full presentations.  But compiling with
sudo seems like a bad long-term idea.  The following are the other relevant
differences (that I get if I compile *without* sudo; with sudo the only
difference is the "restricted \write18 enabled").
(2 & 3) His:
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Package pgfsys Info: Driver file for pgf: pgfsys-pdftex.def on input line
885.

(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/systemlayer/pgfsys-pdftex.d
ef
File: pgfsys-pdftex.def 2007/12/20  (rcs-revision 1.20)

(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/systemlayer/pgfsys-common-p
df.def
File: pgfsys-common-pdf.def 2007/12/17  (rcs-revision 1.8)
)))
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Mine:
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Package pgfsys Info: Driver file for pgf: pgfsys-dvips.def on input line
885.

(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/systemlayer/
pgfsys-dvips.de
f
File: pgfsys-dvips.def 2007/12/12  (rcs-revision 1.19)

(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/systemlayer/pgfsys-common-p
ostscript.def
File: pgfsys-common-postscript.def 2008/02/07  (rcs-revision 1.18)
\pgf at objectcount=\count109
)))
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It's as though mine wants ps output instead of pdf.
(4) His has
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(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/latexconfig/epstopdf-sys.cfg
File: epstopdf-sys.cfg 2010/07/13 v1.3 Configuration of (r)epstopdf for TeX
Liv
e
))
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and mine doesn't, consistent with the idea that something in my setup thinks
it doesn't want pdf output, though in the end it does output a pdf (after
all the Non-PDF special ignored! messages).

Anybody know what might cause this, and how to fix it?

Rick


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