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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
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Pavan K
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  • You might be best to reinstall the main TeXlive tree - the Yosemite upgrade copies everything in /usr/local apparently one file at a time, so possibly it has broken something in your set up. But I also notice that you are using TexLive 2011, so perhaps it's time for an upgrade to TexLive 2014? The best way to do that is to install the MacTeX package - 2G bytes, but worth it. – Thruston Oct 20 '14 at 10:47
  • could i install texlive from macports ? – Pavan K Oct 20 '14 at 11:55
  • i installed texlive and i still have the same problem
    [1{/opt/local/var/db/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}]sh: repstopdf: command not found     – Pavan K Oct 20 '14 at 12:48
  • Depending on how it's invoked, you could be running into an environment variable bug in Yosemite that breaks subprocess launching under some conditions. If repstopdf is not invoked with a full path, and/or the PATH environment variable isn't explicitly set in TeXworks, that's likely the source of your problems. More info here: https://code.google.com/p/mactlmgr/issues/detail?id=102 if anyone's interested. If you launch TeXworks from Terminal, that may work around the problem I described. – Adam Maxwell Oct 20 '14 at 23:50
  • I've described a potential workaround here: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/208181/why-did-my-tex-related-gui-program-stop-working-in-mac-os-x-yosemite – Adam Maxwell Oct 21 '14 at 04:16
  • It works!!! good god!!! Was frustrating. Anyways if you add it as an answer I will accept it. Thank you so much. – Pavan K Oct 21 '14 at 10:03
  • why is it looking at /opt/local/var/db/texmf/fonts/...? – Herb Schulz Apr 08 '22 at 12:57

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I ran this command, which re-instated the epstopdf binary:

sudo tlmgr  install epstopdf
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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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I am a casual user, I found the same problem using Texstudio in Yosemite, it bugged me for so long, and I fixed it!

here is what you do: (based on this old post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/829749/launch-mac-eclipse-with-environment-variables-set)

Create an empty text file called "texstudio.sh" in the Texstudio application bundle directory 

/Applications/Texstudio.app/Contents/MacOS.

Open the texstudio.sh in a text editor an enter the following contents:

#!/bin/sh

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/texbin

logger "`dirname \"$0\"`/eclipse"

exec "`dirname \"$0\"`/eclipse" $@

In the Terminal set the executable flag of the shell script texstudio.sh, i.e.:

chmod +x /Applications/Texstudio.app/Contents/MacOS/texstudio.sh

Open the Texstudio.app Info.plist and change the value for the key Executable from texstudio to texstudio.sh.

MacOS X does not automatically detect that the Texstudio.app's Info.plist has changed. Therefore you need to force update the LaunchService database in the Terminal by using the lsregister command: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -v -f /Applications/Texstudio.app

The next time you launch Texstudio.app from the Dock or from the Finder the environment variables should be set

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I had this problem with texstudio and yosemite.

I fixed it like this. open ~/.bash_profile in a text editor

add the line

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/texbin

save the file.

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