[OS X TeX] \write18 and MacTeX-2007

Victor Ivrii vivrii at gmail.com
Thu Mar 20 23:52:33 CET 2008


On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Mark Eli Kalderon
<eli at markelikalderon.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I am guessing that the \write18 feature is turned off by default for
>  security reasons. Is there a way to enable this feature?


If you using TeXShop open Preferences > Engine and put ``pdftex
--shell-escape'', ``pdflatex --shell-escape'' instead of usual
versions. If you using from terminal just type ``pdflatex
--shell-escape'' etc

>
>  Thanks in advance.
>
>  All the best, Mark
>
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