LaTeXiT on Mac OS X 10.5 with macports
Alec Jacobson
July 03, 2010
So I downloaded the LaTeXiT.app binary on my MacBook Pro running 10.5. It would run as if it were generating the images correctly but then not show anything. I had installed latex, pdflatex via macports, so I thought I had everything I needed.
It seems that I was missing dependencies: libpaper, ghostscript.
I found this out by trying to install latexit via macports directly:
sudo port install latexit
Surprisingly this command failed to build latexit, but the good news is that then the LaTeXiT.app binary worked as it should. Not really a solution, but worked for me.
Note: It's worth noting that this did not happen on my 10.6 machine, where I had also installed everything via macports.