<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="s-prose js-post-body" itemprop="text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: var(--s-prose-line-height); vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; --s-prose-line-height: 1.5; --s-prose-spacing: 1.1em; --s-prose-spacing-condensed: calc(var(--s-prose-spacing) / 2); word-wrap: break-word; width: 658px;"><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px var(--s-prose-spacing); padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both;" class="">I've been using <code style="margin: 0px; padding: 2px 4px; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, "Lucida Console", "Liberation Mono", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", "Courier New", monospace, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap; color: var(--black-800); border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px;" class="">\psfragig</code> replacements for years on MacOS quite successfully. My general workflow is to have my main <code style="margin: 0px; padding: 2px 4px; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, "Lucida Console", "Liberation Mono", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", "Courier New", monospace, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap; color: var(--black-800); border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px;" class="">.tex</code> file in a directory and all of my image files (<code style="margin: 0px; padding: 2px 4px; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, "Lucida Console", "Liberation Mono", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", "Courier New", monospace, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap; color: var(--black-800); border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px;" class="">bar*.eps</code>) along with the corresponding text replacement files (<code style="margin: 0px; padding: 2px 4px; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, "Lucida Console", "Liberation Mono", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", "Courier New", monospace, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap; color: var(--black-800); border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px;" class="">bar*.tex</code>) in a subdirectory (<code style="margin: 0px; padding: 2px 4px; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, "Lucida Console", "Liberation Mono", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", "Courier New", monospace, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap; color: var(--black-800); border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px;" class="">foo</code>) under the main directory. I have never had any problems with this setup.</p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px var(--s-prose-spacing); padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both;" class="">However, I just switched to a new machine (also a Mac) with an upgraded OS (Big Sur) and the process just described no longer seems to work. If my images are in a subdirectory I get the following error:</p><blockquote style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 1em var(--s-prose-spacing) 1em; padding: 0.8em 0.8em 0.8em 1em; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; box-sizing: inherit; position: relative; color: var(--black-600);" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both;" class="">I can't write on file `foo/bar-pstool.tex'</div></blockquote><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px var(--s-prose-spacing); padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both;" class="">The process works fine as long as the images are in the main directory so at least I know that I set the <code style="margin: 0px; padding: 2px 4px; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, "Lucida Console", "Liberation Mono", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", "Courier New", monospace, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap; color: var(--black-800); border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px;" class="">--shell-escape</code> up correctly. I believe it to be some kind of OS permissions issue. I did add the following line to my local <span style="font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, "Lucida Console", "Liberation Mono", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", "Courier New", monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">texmf.cnf </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">file:</span></p><blockquote style="margin: 0 1em var(--s-prose-spacing) 1em; padding: 0.8em 0.8em 0.8em 1em; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; box-sizing: inherit; position: relative;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both;" class=""><font face="Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, Lucida Console, Liberation Mono, DejaVu Sans Mono, Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, Courier New, monospace, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">openout_any = a</span></font></div></blockquote><div style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both;" class="">But no success (I didn’t think it would help but tried since that is supposed to allow processing of image files in directories outside of the main source directory).</div><div style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both;" class="">Any suggestions (other than don't use <code style="margin: 0px; padding: 2px 4px; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, "Lucida Console", "Liberation Mono", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", "Courier New", monospace, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap; color: var(--black-800); border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px;" class="">\psfragfig</code> would be appreciated.</div><div style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both;" class="">Thanks,</div><div style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both;" class="">Dan</div></div><div class="mt24 mb12" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; margin-top: 24px !important; margin-bottom: 12px !important;"><div class="post-taglist gs4 fd-column grid gsy" style="margin: -2px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; clear: both; caret-color: rgb(36, 39, 41); color: rgb(36, 39, 41); flex-direction: column !important;"><div class="grid ps-relative" style="margin: 2px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; position: relative !important;"></div></div></div></body></html>