[OS X TeX] Creating a pdf for the APS journals

[Richard Koch]

Paolo,

There are many possible causes of this problem, none due to TeXShop. Recall that
TeXShop just calls TeX to do your typesetting. The message comes from TeX.

Possible problems:  

1) You installed Fink or MacPorts, and got a piece of a TeX Distibution from them
The system tried to use their distribution.

2) Your TeX is defective or maybe doesn't exist. Reinstall BasicTeX or
MacTeX:

	www.tug.org/mactex

3) other possibilities, which will no doubt be explored by other writers

Dick Koch


On Jul 4, 2011, at 7:07 AM, Paolo Calvani wrote:

> Hi. I am trying unsuccessfully to create the pdf for the paper I am writing in latex (Revtex) for a journal of the American Physical Society. I often did that in the past with my previous macbook Pro and the previous versions of TexShop, with no problems. Now that I have the Intel i7 with Mac OsX 10.6.7, and TexShop vs. 2.43, I always get the error message
> 
> /usr/texbin/mktexfmt: line xxx: /texconfig/tcfmgr: No such file or directory
> fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
> I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'!
> 
> Anybody can help me? Thanks in advance
> 
> Paolo from Rome
> 
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