[OS X TeX] texshop fails to change pdf

[Herbert Schulz]

On Nov 26, 2013, at 10:11 AM, Nitecki, Zbigniew H. <Zbigniew.Nitecki at tufts.edu> wrote:

> Yesterday I updated my operating system to OS10.8.5, and now when I try to edit a .tex file and then typeset, I get no error messages from the generation of the .dvi, but then it fails to rename the old .pdf, and I am left with the new .tex file (changed correctly) but the old (unchanged) .pdf file.
> Here is the full console output from one such run:
> ***************************************************************************
> ### This is /usr/texbin/simpdftex, Version 20070809
> ### /usr/texbin/latex 39F13X3Sol.tex
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-1.40.12 (TeX Live 2011)
> restricted \write18 enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./39F13X3Sol.tex
> LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
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> c, armenian, basque, bulgarian, catalan, pinyin, coptic, croatian, czech, danis
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> h, french, galician, german, ngerman, swissgerman, monogreek, greek, hungarian,
> icelandic, assamese, bengali, gujarati, hindi, kannada, malayalam, marathi, or
> iya, panjabi, tamil, telugu, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian, kurmanji,
> lao, latin, latvian, lithuanian, mongolian, mongolianlmc, bokmal, nynorsk, pol
> ish, portuguese, romanian, russian, sanskrit, serbian, serbianc, slovak, sloven
> ian, spanish, swedish, turkish, turkmen, ukrainian, uppersorbian, welsh, loaded
> .
> (/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
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> (/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pst-plot/pst-plot.tex
> v1.29, 2011/04/13 (tvz,hv))) (./39F13X3Sol.aux)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsfonts/umsa.fd)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsfonts/umsb.fd) [1]
> Overfull \hbox (1.07379pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 161--161
> []\OT1/cmr/bx/n/10.95 Version 1: \OT1/cmr/m/n/10.95 Cen-ter-ing the clock at th
> e ori-gin, the tip of the minute hand is at $([] \OML/cmm/m/it/10.95 ; [] \OT
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> [2] [3] [4] [5] (./39F13X3Sol.aux) )
> (see the transcript file for additional information)
> Output written on 39F13X3Sol.dvi (5 pages, 21792 bytes).
> SyncTeX written on 39F13X3Sol.synctex.gz.
> Transcript written on 39F13X3Sol.log.
> ### /usr/texbin/dvips -R -Poutline  -o /tmp/altpdflatex.4561-1385481894/39F13X3Sol.ps 39F13X3Sol.dvi
> This is dvips(k) 5.991 Copyright 2011 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com<http://www.radicaleye.com>)
> ' TeX output 2013.11.26:1104' -> /tmp/altpdflatex.4561-1385481894/39F13X3Sol.ps
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> </usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/dvips/pstricks/pst-algparser.pro>
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> </usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf/dvips/base/special.pro>
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> ### ps2pdf13 /tmp/altpdflatex.4561-1385481894/39F13X3Sol.ps /tmp/altpdflatex.4561-1385481894/39F13X3Sol.pdf
> ### Copying/moving pdf file /tmp/altpdflatex.4561-1385481894/39F13X3Sol.pdf to 39F13X3Sol.pdf
> cp: /tmp/altpdflatex.4561-1385481894/39F13X3Sol.pdf: No such file or directory
> ### FAILED to copy /tmp/altpdflatex.4561-1385481894/39F13X3Sol.pdf ()
> mv: rename 39F13X3Sol.pdf.4561-1385481894 to 39F13X3Sol.pdf: No such file or directory
> ### FAILED to rename 39F13X3Sol.pdf.4561-1385481894 ()
> ### Succesfully generated 39F13X3Sol.dvi and 39F13X3Sol.pdf
> *********************************************************************************************************
> 
> What is going on?  Help!
> 
> Zbigniew Nitecki
> Department of Mathematics
> Tufts University
> Medford, MA 02155

Howdy,

It looks like ps2pdf13 isn't creating the .pdf file. Can you try to clean up and re-compile? If you're using TeXShop use File->Trash Aux Files and then recompile.

If that doesn't work try to add the extra option

--distiller ps2pdf

(make sure there is a space before it) to the end of the line at TeXShop->Preferences->Engine->TeX+dvips+distiller->Latex. It would also be handy to know what you actually have there too.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)