Two work arounds:
1. Launch DrRacket from a terminal with <open /path/to/DrRacket.app>
2. Run <raco scribble --pdf /path/to/your-scribble-source.scrbl>
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This fragment from racket/collects/redex/private/dot.rkt succinctly
describes the problem and a hard-coded
solution to the root problem:
;; these paths are explicitly checked (when find-executable-path
;; fails) because starting drracket from the finder (or the dock)
;; under mac os x generally does not get the path right.
(define dot-paths
'("/usr/bin"
"/bin"
"/usr/local/bin"
"/opt/local/bin/"))
(define dot.exe (if (eq? (system-type) 'windows) "dot.exe" "dot"))
(define neato.exe (if (eq? (system-type) 'windows) "neato.exe" "neato"))
(define (find-dot [neato? #f])
(cond
[(and (find-executable-path dot.exe)
(find-executable-path neato.exe))
(if neato?
(find-executable-path neato.exe)
(find-executable-path dot.exe))]
[else
(ormap (λ (x) (and (file-exists? (build-path x dot.exe))
(file-exists? (build-path x neato.exe))
(build-path x (if neato? neato.exe dot.exe))))
dot-paths)]))
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To see the problem download:
http://hayne.net/MacDev/AppleScript/*showEnvVars*.applescript
Using the applescript editor
1. save it as a gui app
2. open it from the finder or dock
and open it in a terminal shell using the open command
3, compare the PATH envvar in the two cases
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On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:40 PM, David Janke <da...@thejamesriver.com> wrote:
> You can always try including the relative path. Something like:
> (find-executable-path "pdflatex" "../../../sw/bin")
>
> Doesn't OS X have a .profile? Maybe try defining the path there instead of
> in .bashrc?
>
> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Viera Proulx <v...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
>> I am starting to play with scribble and have tried to generate a pdf
>> document from the scribble source. The conversion to html worked fine.
>>
>> When I hit the Scribble to PDF button I got:
>>
>> Welcome to DrRacket, version 5.2.1 [3m].
>> Language: scribble/manual; memory limit: 128 MB.
>> scribble: loading xref
>> scribble: rendering
>> . .
>> ../../../../../../../Applications/Racket/collects/scribble/private/run-pdflatex.rkt:7:0:
>> run-pdflatex: could not find a `pdflatex' executable
>> >
>>
>> So I looked for run-pdflatex.rkt and opened that and ran it -
>> successfully. I am working on a Mac OS 1.6.8 - so I wondered whether
>> pdflatex exists on it. Running in the Terminal, I tried:
>>
>> vkp$ which pdflatex
>> /sw/bin/pdflatex
>> vkp$ which man
>> /usr/bin/man
>>
>> so, the command is there. I checked my .bashrc and /sw/bin is in the PATH:
>>
>>
>> PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/vkp/bin:/usr/local/bin:/sw/bin:/Applications/Racket/bin:/usr/bin/ant/bin:/Applications/android-sdk-mac_86/tools:$PATH
>>
>>
>> Then I tried in the Interactions for the run-pdflatex.rkt
>>
>> Welcome to DrRacket, version 5.2.1 [3m].
>> Language: scheme/base; memory limit: 128 MB.
>> > (find-executable-path "pdflatex")
>> #f
>> > (find-executable-path "man")
>> #<path:/usr/bin/man>
>> >
>>
>> So - I have no idea why the path to pdflatex is not found. Any help is
>> appreciated.
>>
>> -- Viera
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