[OS X TeX] epstopdf: command not found

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Nov 21, 2015, at 12:44 AM, Nicolae Garleanu <garleanu at berkeley.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I don’t know how long I have had this issue — most likely since I installed the latest TexLive and Basic Tex a few months ago — but I can no longer use the epstopdf package. I get an error as in the subject line "epstopdf: command not found”. I went on line immediately to look for solutions, and came across various pieces that seemed to blame either Yosemite (although I am sure epstopdf did work earlier with Yosemite) or XQuartz (e.g., http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/207754/error-using-epstopdf-package) — I updated XQuartz, then removed the program (uninstalled, I believe) and reinstalled, no change. I can’t say I really understood all these pieces, either.
> 
> Has anybody on this list experienced this type of issue?
> 
> I am running TL2015, having downloaded Basic Tex, with TS 3.52 (though I am sure this has nothing to do with TS). I run pdflatex, as I have been for years without a problem.
> 
> Thank you.
> Nicolae 

Howdy,

Does the command

which epstopdf

executed in Terminal return

/Library/TeX/texbin/epstopdf

as it should? 

If so you should install the Ghostscript package. It's available near the bottom of the same page as BasicTeX, <http://www.tug.org/mactex/morepackages.html>. Ghostscript is used by epostopdf to do the conversion.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)