[scribus] Mac Render Frame Problem

[Martin Costabel]

On 21/06/13 12:39, john Culleton wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 18:49:36 -0600
> Alvin Revzin <the-editor at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>> Unlike previous versions, Scribus 1.4.2 works well on my Mac Mini
>> with OSX-10.8.4 but if and only if Ghostscript and Scribus are in the
>> Applications folder. There is one major problem, though. If I try to
>> insert a render frame into a document, I get an error message that
>> says "The application "pdflatex --nonstopmode" failed to start.
>> Please check the path:" and then nothing further.
>>
>> This message makes no sense as there is no way to check the -
>> unspecified - path. Also, IIRC, many years ago there was a "pdflatex"
>> in the usual MacTeX distribution but it is nothing like it is in my
>> current (2012) distribution (also in the Applications folder).

What do you mean? The standard MacTeX distribution puts its executables 
into /usr/texbin, which is a symlink to something like 
/usr/local/texlive/2012/bin/x86_64-darwin. It also provides code that 
places /usr/texbin on your PATH.

>> Is this soluble or is it JAMI (Just Another Mac Incompatibility?

>
> Pdflatex is an older component of the TeX distribution. You can
> download the full ditribution in the form of a dvd. Google on texlive.

pdflatex is a standard component of all recent TeX distributions. In any 
case, it comes with MacTeX 2013, and it would be very surprising if the 
2012 distribution didn't have it, too. It is, in fact, a symlink to pdftex.

-- 
Martin