[Tex/LaTex] Eforms on Mac OS X

acrotextexlive

I am using Texclipse and TexLive. I just updated to TexLive 2011 and set my path

/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/universal-darwin

however I don't have the eforms package that comes with acrotex. I have downloaded the acrotex bundle but I don't know how to install it. Anyone that could help me please?

By the way mac users do you recommend a different application than texlive?

Best Answer

First of all, using the MacTeX distribution of TeX Live, you should set any paths in your editor to point to /Library/TeX/texbin, not to the particular folder for the distribution. This is so that subsequent updates will not require you to reset these paths. /Library/TeX/texbin will always point to the binaries of the currently selected distribution. (MacTeX allows you to have multiple years of TeXLive coexisting on the same machine, and selectable by a System Preferences control panel.)

The acrotex bundle requires installation via a .ins file. Unzip the acrotex.zip folder and put it in ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/.

You can do this part from the Finder by using the Go To Folder item in the Go menu and then entering ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex. (If you are using OS 10.7 or later, you will have to do get to it this way, since the users Library is now hidden by default.)

If that folder is not found, you will need to create one by opening a terminal window and typing the following. This creates a tex/latex folder to place the .sty and .cls files that you will generate plus an acrotex folder for the documentation.

mkdir -p ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex
mkdir -p ~/Library/texmf/doc/tex/latex/acrotex

(Or you can create the folders in the finder, but the above is faster.) Once you've copied the acrotex folder to ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex,

do the following from a Terminal window: 

cd ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/acrotex
latex acrotex.ins

This should generate all of the appropriate .sty and .cls files.

To make the documentation findable by texdoc, do the following:

cp doc/* ~/Library/texmf/doc/tex/latex/acrotex

Now everything should work.

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