Hi Paul, Aha! That offers some insight! Same thing happes no matter whether I export latex(plain) || latex(pdflatex).
brutus:Desktop jelleferinga$ pdflatex newfile1.tex This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7) %&-line parsing enabled. kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.fmt I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'! Thanks -jelle