I run it as: simpdftexnodel latex --mode dvips --maxpfb --distiller ps2pdf14 --tex- path /usr/texbin
and it works smoothly. I assume that, if you have leopard, you made the change advised by the author at the end of the webpage <http://phaseportrait.blogspot.com/2007/07/skim-automatic-refreshes- and-simpdftex.html>, namely all the occurrences of echo -n should be changed into printf "%s" My script simpdftexnodel is in /usr/local/bin and the name shouldn't be changed (so, DELETE the .sh suffix in the filename). I modified the script to accept also parameters to be passed to dvips, as follows: simpdftexnodel latex --mode dvips --maxpfb --distiller ps2pdf14 -- distiller-opts '-dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress' --tex-path /usr/texbin If you are interested, I can send you my script. cheers --e. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Carbon Emacs User Group http://groups.google.com/group/carbon-emacs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---