[OS X TeX] Just went to Leopard and ...

Bruno Voisin bvoisin at mac.com
Fri Nov 9 15:05:37 CET 2007


Le 9 nov. 07 à 15:00, Bruno Voisin a écrit :

> - Perhaps you can simply redump your pdftex format (used by default  
> by TeXShop for plain TeX) to incorporate the fix, and then forget  
> about the whole thing. I have not tested this myself, but I imagine  
> the following should work:
>
> * Create a file /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/plain/misc/ 
> pdftexfix.tex say containing
>
> \let\stdmagnification=\magnification
> \def\magnification{\stdmagnification
>  \pdfpagewidth=8.5truein
>  \pdfpageheight=11.0truein
>  \pdfhorigin=1.0truein
>  \pdfvorigin=1.0truein}
>
> * Copy /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/plain/config/ 
> pdftex.ini to /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/plain/config/ 
> pdftex.ini (creating directories as required).
>
> * Edit the new pdftex.ini by adding between "\input plain" and  
> "\dump" the line
>
> \input pdftexfix
>
> * In Terminal, run
>
> sudo -H fmtutil-sys --byfmt pdftex
>
> I'm cc'ing this to the OS X TeX list, so that knowledgeable people  
> there can correct the above if I'm wrong.

An obvious omission: before running fmtutil-sys, you need first to run

sudo mktexlsr

to make TeX and friends aware of the presence of the new files  
pdftexfix.tex and pdftex.ini.

Bruno


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