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Re: Running ps2pdf from within Mathematica

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• Subject: [mg60646] Re: Running ps2pdf from within Mathematica
• From: "Trevor Baca" <trevorbaca at gmail.com>
• Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 04:19:50 -0400 (EDT)
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There were indeed path problems. The value of $PATH was,
unsurprisingly, set differently for my username and whatever the
default Mathematica username is in the subsession that Run[ ] creates.
One easy solution turns out to be to read my own .profile using the dot
operator ...

   Run[".  /Users/trevorbaca/.profile && ps2pdf foo.ps"]

... followed by && and the then call to ps2pdf.

This should've been obvious to me since the situation mirrors using
os.system ("system-calls-here") in python, were environment variables
must be set explicitly if you are, for example, running your .py from
cron.

Thanks much for the suggestions.

Trevor.

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  • Running ps2pdf from within Mathematica
    • From: "Trevor Baca" <trevorbaca@gmail.com>