Trouble using pstopdf in Sonoma

[Anthony Davison]

I’ve just upgraded my OS to Sonoma 14.1.1 and have discovered (after being unable to compile files with the TeX + dvi + distiller option) that Apple support for postscript has disappeared in Sonoma.  A consequence of this is that pstopdf is not found in /usr/bin/ and therefore the simpdftex script doesn’t work.

Example output is here:

### Saving intermediary ps file /tmp/altpdflatex.72143-1701006856/RMplan2023.ps as RMplan2023.ps
### /usr/bin/pstopdf  /tmp/altpdflatex.72143-1701006856/RMplan2023.ps /tmp/altpdflatex.72143-1701006856/RMplan2023.pdf
/Library/TeX/texbin/simpdftex: line 512: /usr/bin/pstopdf: No such file or directory
### FAILED to generate /tmp/altpdflatex.72143-1701006856/RMplan2023.pdf ()


I have tried putting pstopdf into /usr/local/bin but this doesn’t work.

I’m puzzled because the 2023 MacTeX update says it is for Sonoma, so I guess I can’t be the only person to have this problem, but I can’t (yet) find a solution on the web.  I have installed the most recent TeX Live version, and updated all the packages, but that doesn’t seem to cure it.

I use a lot of .ps and .eps files in making slides for teaching, so some solution/workaround would be greatly appreciated.

Should a script that uses pstopdf as a default should be updated?

Many thanks for any help you can give.

Yours,

Anthony Davison

Professor A. C. Davison
EPFL-FSB-MATH-STAT, Station 8
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
CH-1015 Lausanne
Switzerland Tel: + 41 (0)21 693 5502
Sec: + 41 (0)21 693 5456
http://stat.epfl.ch/

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