<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 9. Mrz 2007, at 15:31, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On Mar 9, 2007, at 9:09 AM, Christof Janssen wrote:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On 9. Mrz 2007, at 14:31, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On Mar 9, 2007, at 8:22 AM, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>My copy of Textmate calls pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) and (my) Texshop pdfeTeX 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5).</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">So, the thing that worries me here is that textmate uses pdftex instead of pdfetex. Wondering why that is, because typically it runs pdfetex. Hopefully a tex file I can compile might give some hints.</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Haris,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I just realized that Texshop relies on the tetex distribution (installed with i-installer in /usr/local/teTex/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0). pdflatex in that directory makes a call to pdftex. I have recently added gerben wierdas gwtex (also using the i-installer/automatic configuration: /usr/local/gwTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0). The latter is called by textmate and executes pdfetex. In the past, I must have used the previous engine with Textmate too. Which is the current version of pdfetex then?</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Actually your problem is the other way around, it is textmate that is NOT executing pdfetex, at least doesn't seem to, which is what is puzzling me. So if you change the call that TeXShop makes and have it use gwTeX instead, do you then get the same log files?</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Issuing the commands in a terminal, yes, I can always reproduce the error logs. The same occurs when I change the path in the Texshop preferences. pdflatex in the gwTeX tree always calls the pdftex engine rather than pdfetex and pdflatex in the tetex tree calls pdfetex.</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Btw, do you have a /usr/texbin directory? If so, which distribution does it point to?</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Yes, it points to /Library/TeX/Distributions/.DefaultTeX/Contents/Programs/powerpc, which is a symlink to /usr/local/gwTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current<BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Also, when you compile from the command line via pdflatex, which version of tex is used then?</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>The path is set to the gwTeX version, which calls pdftex rather than pdfetex.</DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[...] So if you can send us the preamble, that's the part that I care about.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Monaco; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Monaco; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Monaco; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Monaco; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Here the preamble:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>\documentclass[cjanssenlpmaa,backaddress=false]{scrlttr2}</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>\usepackage{graphicx}</DIV><DIV>\usepackage{epstopdf}</DIV><DIV>\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}</DIV><DIV>\usepackage{pdfsync}</DIV><DIV>\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} </DIV><DIV>\usepackage{lucidabr}</DIV><DIV>\usepackage[frenchb]{babel}</DIV><DIV>\setkomavar{subject}{blablabla}</DIV><DIV>\date{09 mars 2007}</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>