[OS X TeX] epstopdf glitch

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jul 12, 2010, at 6:36 PM, Justin C. Walker wrote:

> Hi, Herb,
> 
> On Jul 12, 2010, at 16:18 , Herbert Schulz wrote:
>> On Jul 12, 2010, at 6:04 PM, Justin C. Walker wrote:
> [snip]
>>> Is there still an issue?
>>> 
>>> Thanks for your help (and clarifying some things along the way).
>>> 
>>> Justin
>>> 
>> 
>> Could you provide a minimal but compilable sample file (and eps to include) that shows this behavior. Depending upon what you are doing there might be a problem with restricted shell escape which is one of the things I've been testing.
> 
> I'm attaching one.  You need to supply your own 'eps' file.  Also you need to ignore the blather that's used in the text, and don't attribute it to a psychotic break... :-}
> 
> I set TeXShop to 'Pdftex', fire away, and get the "restricted mode" error right away.
> 

Howdy,

Sigh... no attachments here. Could you email me direct? You can figure out my email address from my signature.

I'll just use the line

% !TEX TS-program = pdflatex

and TeXshop will take care of the rest. One thing that is very strange here is that the pdflatex engine (see TeXShop->Preferences->Engine->pdfTeX->Latex item) uses shell escape by default so it shouldn't be in restricted mode at all. I could use a copy of your log file and maybe you can copy the full Console output to a file (click in the main Console window and do a Select All) so I can get a better idea of why you're failing to compile. Maybe when I see the file I'll understand right away.

>> Let me know what you get when you run
>> 
>> kpsewhich epstopdf-sys.cfg
> 
> I get what you get (if the path below is what you get).
> 

That's good and normal.

>> kpsewhich epstopdf.cfg
> 
> Zilch.  I have no such file.
> 

That's good and normal too.

>> as well as let me know what you get when you run
>> 
>> cat /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/latexconfig/epstopdf-sys.cfg
> 
> % Public domain.
> \ProvidesFile{epstopdf-sys.cfg}%
>  [2010/06/06 v1.2 Configuration of (r)epstopdf for TeX Live]%
> \epstopdfsetup{%
>  program at epstopdf=repstopdf% only the restricted epstopdf is allowed
> }
> \endinput
> 
> HTH.
> 
> Justin

And that looks correct too.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)