<div style>You can always try including the relative path. Something like:</div>(find-executable-path "pdflatex" "../../../sw/bin")<div style> </div><div style>Doesn't OS X have a .profile? Maybe try defining the path there instead of in .bashrc?</div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Viera Proulx <<a href="mailto:vkp@ccs.neu.edu" target="_blank">vkp@ccs.neu.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> 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 ____________________ Racket Users list: <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a> </blockquote></div>