On Sep 3, 2007, at 10:08, It's me wrote: > I've just started using BibDesk and I think it's > fantastic. > > However, I can't seem to get Preview to work. I get > the message "TeX preview generation failed". I should > explain that I'm a LaTeX neophyte, and in fact it was > BibDesk that has made me want to use LaTeX instead of > Word.
Funny, that's what happened to me a few years ago :). Welcome aboard. > I downloaded BibDesk along with TeXshop. Under > preferences I set the path to pdflatex as: > Users/michaelbiggs/Library/TeXshop/bin/pdflatexc > And the path to bibtex as: > Users/michaelbiggs/Library/TeXshop/bin/bibtexc I think these are just scripts that call the actual pdflatex and bibtex binaries. You'll need to install a TeX distribution, such as MacTeX from <http://tug.org/mactex/> or gwTeX via i-Installer <http://ii2.sf.net/ >. Either way it's a pretty large download. -- Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
