Did you try my first workaround suggestion? It lets you keep PATH modifications to typical *nix ones: such as install scripts expect/suggest easing maintenance, ymmv. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Danny Yoo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dyoo@hashcollision.org" target="_blank">dyoo@hashcollision.org</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Viera Proulx <<a href="mailto:vkp@ccs.neu.edu">vkp@ccs.neu.edu</a>> wrote:<br> </div><div class="im">> 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.<br> ><br> > When I hit the Scribble to PDF button I got:<br> ><br> > Welcome to DrRacket, version 5.2.1 [3m].<br> > Language: scribble/manual; memory limit: 128 MB.<br> > scribble: loading xref<br> > scribble: rendering<br> <br> > . . ../../../../../../../Applications/Racket/collects/scribble/private/run-pdflatex.rkt:7:0: run-pdflatex: could not find a `pdflatex' executable<br> <br> <br> </div>Ah, but this looks like a Mac OS X system. The environment that<br> Racket (and other Mac OS X graphical programs) uses to run executables<br> does not use the same variables as those provided by a "login" shell<br> like your Terminal. That means that even if your Terminal has an<br> appropriate PATH, it's not guaranteed that the graphical programs use<br> an environment with the right environmental variables.<br> <br> Environmental variables on Mac OS X is funky. You may need to modify<br> your $HOME/.MacOSX/environment.plist. See:<br> <br> <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/135688/setting-environment-variables-in-os-x" target="_blank">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/135688/setting-environment-variables-in-os-x</a><br> <br> Good luck!<br> <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">____________________<br> Racket Users list:<br> <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br>