Convert .eps File to .pdf File Automatically with pdflatex on OS X
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TexStudio is a amazing tool to edit latex. However one thing annoying me a lot is how to automatically convert .eps file to .pdf file.
On ubuntu, I just include ‘epstopdf’ package and append ‘-shell-escape’ to pdflatex command. Then everything goes well. Something looks like:
/usr/texbin/pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode -shell-escape %.tex
On OS X, this problem really makes me headache a while. After all, I solved it at last through one not delegate method. Here is the notes:
By checking the tex’s log, I found that epstopdf was not located in system searched PATH, so I created the link manully
ln -s /usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/scripts/epstopdf/epstopdf.pl /usr/local/bin/epstopdf Also, the epstopdf complained that ghostscript is not installed. So I made it satisfied with
brew install ghostscript
WHooo, texstudio generated pdf as I expected.
PSPS: requiring epstopdfpackage declared and -shell-escape appended.
On 10.10, there is a bug when opening texstudio from GUI. Environment Variants cannot be loaded rightly. Thus, open it from command line will work well.
/Applications/texstudio.app/Contents/MacOS/texstudio
Maybe, adding this command to alias is a good choice in current. Hope apple can solve this bug soon.
