On 06/21/2013 08:27 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > On 21/06/13 12:39, john Culleton wrote: >> On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 18:49:36 -0600 >> Alvin Revzin <the-editor at mindspring.com> wrote: >> >>> Unlike previous versions, Scribus 1.4.2 works well on my Mac Mini >>> with OSX-10.8.4 but if and only if Ghostscript and Scribus are in the >>> Applications folder. There is one major problem, though. If I try to >>> insert a render frame into a document, I get an error message that >>> says "The application "pdflatex --nonstopmode" failed to start. >>> Please check the path:" and then nothing further. >>> >>> This message makes no sense as there is no way to check the - >>> unspecified - path. Also, IIRC, many years ago there was a "pdflatex" >>> in the usual MacTeX distribution but it is nothing like it is in my >>> current (2012) distribution (also in the Applications folder). > > What do you mean? The standard MacTeX distribution puts its executables > into /usr/texbin, which is a symlink to something like > /usr/local/texlive/2012/bin/x86_64-darwin. It also provides code that > places /usr/texbin on your PATH. > >>> Is this soluble or is it JAMI (Just Another Mac Incompatibility? > >> >> Pdflatex is an older component of the TeX distribution. You can >> download the full ditribution in the form of a dvd. Google on texlive. > > pdflatex is a standard component of all recent TeX distributions. In any > case, it comes with MacTeX 2013, and it would be very surprising if the > 2012 distribution didn't have it, too. It is, in fact, a symlink to pdftex. > I had this same message recently with my Fedora 18 recently -- I figured it out, but will see if I can recall what I figured out and get back when I do.
So it's not a Mac issue per se. I think there was some single texlive-something or other I had to get. Greg
