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This page contains the latest updates for MacTeX, and Alternate TeX Distributions for users who do not want to download the full TeX Live 2007. For convenient downloading, MacTeX has been divided into two pieces. MacTeX-Additions contains everything in MacTeX except the TeX distribution. Thus it contains Ghostscript, ImageMagick, the Font Utilities, and the GUI Applications. TeXLive-2007-Dev contains the full TeX Live distribution; "Dev" indicates that this is a development release constructed after the official TeX Live 2007 DVD release.
teTeX and gwTeX are alternate TeX Distributions. Thus a complete TeX system can be obtained by installing MacTeX-Additions and then one or more of TeXLive-2007, gwTeX, or teTeX.
Each package below has been updated to the latest version as of December 1, 2007. Each package is fully compatible with Leopard.
Beamer Upgrade (2.4 MB)
The main difference between the latest version of TeX Live 2007 and the earlier release version is that Beamer has been upgraded to version 3.07, fixing several bugs. This small install package upgrades Beamer to version 3.07 in MacTeX-2007 and TeXLive-2007. Most users should download it rather than downloading the large TeXLive-2007-Dev package. Use one of the two links below.
MacTeX-Additions (126.1 MB)
MacTeX-Additions contains everything in MacTeX except the actual TeX distribution. Use one of the two links below.
BasicTeX (40 MB)
BasicTeX is a subset of TeX Live designed for easy download by users with limited download speed. The package is remarkably capable. It contains all of the standard tools needed to write TeX documents, including TeX, LaTeX, pdfTeX, MetaFont, dvips, ConTeXt, MetaPost, and XeTeX.
gwTeX (321 MB)
gwTeX is Gerben Wierda's alternate modern TeX distribution, based on TeX Live. Use one of the two links below.
TeXLive-2007-Dev (619.7 MB)
TeXLive-2007-Dev is the latest development release of TeX Live. It contains an updated version of Beamer. Use one of the two links below.
teTeX (252.6 MB)
teTeX is the TeX distribution in MacTeX 2006. Support for this distribution ended in May, 2006, and it has not been updated since. The distribution is provided for historical reasons only. Use one of the two links below.
LeopardTeXFix (60 KB)
All packages on this page are compatible with Leopard. Earlier packages on this site were also Leopard ready, with one small glitch. The technique used in earlier packages to set the PATH and MANPATH variables is unnecessary in Leopard because Apple has provided a much easier mechanism. Moreover, the MANPATH change didn't work in Leopard. In the new packages, the old technique is used on systems 10.3 and 10.4, but the easier Leopard technique is used on system 10.5.
For users who already have the earlier packages, LeopardTeXFix installs the new technique for PATH and MANPATH and undoes the earlier fix. Read the "Explanation of Fixes" document for details.
LeopardTeXFix.pkg.zip (from uoregon.edu/~koch)
Explanation of
Fixes (from uoregon.edu/~koch)