[OS X TeX] No output with LaTeXit and Mac Tex 2008?

[Herbert Schulz]

On Sep 18, 2008, at 2:36 PM, Todd Hufnagel wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Thanks to Michael Sharpe and Peter Dyballa for answering my question  
> last week about exam.cls and Mac TeX 2008; I fixed that one and also  
> some troubles with MathTime Pro fonts (also thanks to the list). So  
> I can now typeset without difficulty using TeXShop.
>
> Now I have a new and exciting problem, with LaTeXit. I can typeset  
> equations and there are no apparent errors, but neither is there any  
> apparent output. For instance, attempting to typeset 2+2=4 with the  
> "Display" option yields the log file appended below - I don't see  
> anything obviously wrong. The output window is blank, and while I  
> can copy and past something (invisible) from there into Keynote (for  
> instance), nothing appears in Keynote. Direct examination of the  
> output file (latexit-1.pdf) using Preview also shows it to be blank.
>
> This is using LaTeXit 1.16.0 beta 4, which I believe was installed  
> as part of the MacTeX 2008 distribution, on Mac OS X 10.5.5. The  
> behavior appears to be independent of whether I've selected pdflatex  
> or latex+dvipdf in the preference pane, except that in the latter  
> case LaTeXit issued the complaint at the end of the log file:
>
> /usr/local/bin/dvipdf: line 47: exec: dvips: not found
>
> I was able to get rid of that complaint by changing the ps2pdf  
> preference from "/usr/local/bin/ps2pdf" to "/usr/texbin/pstopdf" but  
> even with that there is still no output.
>
> Any suggestions on how to proceed would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Todd Hufnagel
>
>
>> Source :
>> \documentclass[10pt]{article}
>> \usepackage{color}\color[rgb]{0.000,0.000,0.000} %used for font color
>> \usepackage{amssymb} %maths
>> \usepackage{amsmath} %maths
>> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} %useful to type directly diacritic  
>> characters
>>
>> \pagestyle{empty} \begin{document}$\displaystyle 2+2=4
>> $
>> \end{document}
>>
>> --------------- processing pdflatex ---------------
>> #!/bin/sh
>> cd /var/folders/sH/sHFnS3NcFRCgeZI2DReRuE+++TI/-Tmp-/latexit-1.16.0
>> /usr/texbin/pdflatex -file-line-error -interaction nonstopmode /var/ 
>> folders/sH/sHFnS3NcFRCgeZI2DReRuE+++TI/-Tmp-/latexit-1.16.0/ 
>> latexit-1.tex 1>|/var/folders/sH/sHFnS3NcFRCgeZI2DReRuE+++TI/-Tmp-/ 
>> latexit-1.16.0/latexit-task-stdout.s0qIXORc4.log 2>|/var/folders/sH/ 
>> sHFnS3NcFRCgeZI2DReRuE+++TI/-Tmp-/latexit-1.16.0/latexit-task- 
>> stderr.rknDrEPAY.log </dev/null
>>
>> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7)
>> file:line:error style messages enabled.
>> %&-line parsing enabled.
>> entering extended mode
>>
>> (/var/folders/sH/sHFnS3NcFRCgeZI2DReRuE+++TI/-Tmp-/latexit-1.16.0/ 
>> latexit-1.tex
>> LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
>> Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax,  
>> dumylang, noh
>> yphenation, german-x-2008-06-18, ngerman-x-2008-06-18,  
>> ancientgreek, ibycus, ar
>> abic, basque, bulgarian, catalan, pinyin, coptic, croatian, czech,  
>> danish, dutc
>> h, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish, french, galician, german,  
>> ngerman, mono
>> greek, greek, hungarian, icelandic, indonesian, interlingua, irish,  
>> italian, la
>> tin, mongolian, mongolian2a, bokmal, nynorsk, polish, portuguese,  
>> romanian, rus
>> sian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish,  
>> turkish, ukenglis
>> h, ukrainian, uppersorbian, welsh, loaded.
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
>> Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document  
>> class
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/color.sty
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/tex/latex/config/color.cfg)
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pdftex-def/pdftex.def))
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsfonts/amssymb.sty
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsfonts/amsfonts.sty))
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsmath.sty
>> For additional information on amsmath, use the `?' option.
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amstext.sty
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsgen.sty))
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsbsy.sty)
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsopn.sty))
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/utf8.def
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/t1enc.dfu)
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ot1enc.dfu)
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/omsenc.dfu)))
>> No file latexit-1.aux.
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/supp-pdf.tex
>> [Loading MPS to PDF converter (version 2006.09.02).]
>> ) (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsfonts/umsa.fd)
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsfonts/umsb.fd) [1{/ 
>> usr/local/t
>> exlive/2008/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] (./ 
>> latexit-1.aux) )<
>> /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr10.pfb>
>> Output written on latexit-1.pdf (1 page, 3933 bytes).
>> Transcript written on latexit-1.log.
>>
>
>

Howdy,

It looks as though everything went well!? I'd first try to delete the  
LaTeXiT preference file, just in case something went wrong with it.  
The file is fr.club.ktd.LaTeXiT.plist found in ~/Library/Preferences/.  
Hopefully that will fix it since I'm not having problems here.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)