You shouldn't use the texshop paths, those are just scripts to run
some common tex commands (and on my system plain wrong). You need to
use the paths to the actual pdflatex/bibtex commands. Those depend on
your tex installation. In my case it's /usr/texbin/pdflatex and /usr/
texbin/bibtex.
Christiaan
On 3 Sep 2007, at 7:08 PM, 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.
>
> 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 selected alpha as the bibtex style, though
> ultimately I would like to specify my own .bst file.
>
> This is the error log:
> **********************************************************************
> **
> TeX preview generation failed. Please review the log
> below to determine the cause.
>
> ---------- TeX log file ----------
> File: "/Users/michaelbiggs/Library/Caches/Cleanup At
> Startup/bibdesk-7/bibpreview/bibpreview.log"
> (null)
>
> ---------- BibTeX log file -------
> File: "/Users/michaelbiggs/Library/Caches/Cleanup At
> Startup/bibdesk-7/bibpreview/bibpreview.blg"
> (null)
>
> ---------- BibDesk info ----------
> <BDSKTeXTask: 0x1119d40> {
> ivars:
> delegate = "(null)"
> file name = "bibpreview"
> template = "/Users/michaelbiggs/Library/Application
> Support/BibDesk/previewtemplate.tex"
> TeX file =
> "/Users/michaelbiggs/Library/Caches/Cleanup At
> Startup/bibdesk-7/bibpreview/bibpreview.tex"
> BibTeX file =
> "/Users/michaelbiggs/Library/Caches/Cleanup At
> Startup/bibdesk-7/bibpreview/bibpreview.bib"
> TeX binary path =
> "Users/michaelbiggs/Library/TeXshop/bin"
> Encoding = "Western (ASCII)"
> BibTeX style = "alpha"
> Helper files = ()
>
> environment:
> SHELL = "/bin/bash"
> BIBINPUTS = "(null)"
> BSTINPUTS = "(null)"
> PATH =
> "/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:Users/michaelbiggs/Library/TeXshop/
> bin:Users/michaelbiggs/Library/TeXshop/bin"
> }
>
> **********************************************************************
> **
>
> I'm sure there's something very simple that I'm doing
> wrong--I'd be most grateful if you could point it out!
>
> Congratulations on an excellent program!
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
>
>
>
>
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