Dear Texhax,<br><br>I'm a new member. I've successfully used Tex (TexShop) for two years on my iMac running system 10.4.8. Three days ago I downloaded the beta6 update of TexShop, and got an error message that a program was missing (perhaps the same error message as
<br>below - I'm not sure). A day later I noticed that beta7 was available, and<br>hoping for better luck I tried it, getting the same error message.<br><br>I then tried to go back to the texhop I had used before. Several times I've
<br>removed all tex programs and downloaded MacTex from <a href="http://www.ctan.org">www.ctan.org</a> and<br>reinstalled, getting the following error message each time:<br><br>Can't find required tool.<br>/usr/texbin/pdflatex does not exist. Perhaps teTeX was not installed or was
<br>removed during a system upgrade. If so, go to the TeXShop web site and follow<br>the instructions to (re)install teTeX. Another possibility is that a tool path<br>is incorrectly configured in TeXShop preferences. This can happen if you are
<br>using the fink teTeX distribution.<br><br>I've tried wihtout success to install teTex (it comes as a bunch of files<br>without an installer). I do find "fink" files on my machine, but I don't know<br>
how to reset the path. When I search my computer for pdflatex, it is not<br>found.<br><br>In preferences in texshop my settings in "engine" are:<br>Path settings: /usr/texbin<br>Distiller: /usr/local/bin<br>Tex programs: pdftex --shell-escape
<br>Latex program: pdflatex --shell-escape<br><br>Can you give me any help? I can open but cannot typeset any of my tex documents. I am not familiar with the unix command structure, but will try if necessary and with help.
<br>Thanks,<br>Geoff Berresford<br><a href="mailto:gberres@gmail.com">gberres@gmail.com</a><br>