[Tex/LaTex] texworks on mac epstopdf or repstopdf not found

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I am running texworks on mac and pdflatex to generate pdf.

epstopdf used to run fine until i upgraded my mac to the new yosemite.

Now I have this problem –

[1{/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}]sh: repstopdf: command not found

I tried to manually add

--enable-write18 

[1{/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}]sh: epstopdf: command not found

I also installed texlive-fontutils through macports

Could anyone tell me how to solve this. I added \usepackage{epstopdf} to the preamble.

I can access both repstopdf and epstopdf on my terminal

I tried various solutions posted here tex-soln

UPDATE:

Taking the suggestion I installed texlive 2014 and removed the 2011 version:

I have the same problem:

[1{/opt/local/var/db/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}]sh: repstopdf: command not found

Best Answer

Launching TeXworks in the Terminal will work around an environment variable bug in OS X Yosemite. Assuming you have TeXworks installed in the /Applications folder, your command in Terminal would look like this:

/Applications/TeXworks.app/Contents/MacOS/TeXworks

Press return after entering the command, and TeXworks should launch. Correct functioning will depend on the caveats listed here in the more detailed description of the problem.

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Additional suggestion: Do you maybe have an older version of some TeX installation floating around somewhere on your system? The reason I ask is that the error message mentions /usr/texbin/pdflatex, whereas the executables of MacTeX2011 should be located somewhere under /usr/local/texlive/2011/...

Third and final suggestion :-) Have you specified the T1 font encoding in your TeX program? (I believe the Frutiger fonts from the CTAN only work with T1, and maybe TS1.) If this doesn't work, I give up! Hopefully, others will come up with better suggestions. OK: here's a final suggestion: You should provide a MWE of your problems, so that others can at least try to replicate it.

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sudo ./latex /Users/fluid/Desktop/sample.tex

from within the executables folder, viz., /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-darwin: you'll be prompted for the superuser password, and thereafter latex should run without further complaints of the type you report in your posting. BTW, I really don't recommend doing this (i.e., running latex with superuser privileges) on a regular basis.

Assuming MacTeX was installed correctly, the TeX executables should be in the search path, and you should simply be running latex from the folder that contains the .tex file -- in the case you report, the Desktop folder.

By the way, you may want to think about updating your TeX distribution to MacTeX 2012.

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