export_fig can't find pdftops
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Until recently I used export_fig successfully on a Mac. Now I get the following error:
'Pdftops not found. Please locate the program, or install xpdf-tools from ....'
In the window that opens i can localize the Unix executable 'xpdf-pdftops' as well as an alias 'pdftops', which points to 'xpdf-pdftops'. However, they are grayed out and unselectable.
Did anyone experience this problem and found a solution for this?
Thanks in advance Hannes
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Simon de Szoeke
on 23 Sep 2019
Edited: Simon de Szoeke
on 23 Sep 2019
I also found the path GUI tool not to work when pdftops was on a different path, and the actual executable was named xpdf-pdftops. The GUI would not accept the symbolic link named pdftops that points to xpdf-pdftops.
To fix this, first find your pdftops installation with the linux command line:
which pdftops
My installation was from MacPorts, which puts binaries in /opt/local/bin .
Prepend your pdftops path to the cell on line 61 of pdftops.m.
paths = {'/opt/local/bin', '/usr/bin/pdftops', '/usr/local/bin/pdftops'};
Only add the path here, not the link or executable filename itself.
Then export_fig -eps works.
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