diff --git a/applications/star2html/Makefile.am b/applications/star2html/Makefile.am
index ac7b7e4521a..957dce2f6d0 100644
--- a/applications/star2html/Makefile.am
+++ b/applications/star2html/Makefile.am
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ l2hdir=$(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/latex2html/bin/
 
 edit=sed \
     -e 's,@ENV\@,$(ENV),g' \
+    -e 's,@PDFTOPS\@,$(PDFTOPS),g' \
+    -e 's,@PDF2PS\@,$(PDF2PS),g' \
     -e 's,@PACKAGE_VERSION\@,$(PACKAGE_VERSION),g' \
     -e 's,@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT\@,$(PACKAGE_BUGREPORT),g' \
     -e 's,@l2hdir\@,$(l2hdir),g'
diff --git a/applications/star2html/configure.ac b/applications/star2html/configure.ac
index 161b2616fcf..1da1b5160dc 100644
--- a/applications/star2html/configure.ac
+++ b/applications/star2html/configure.ac
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ dnl    And requires that Perl is already built, from which we use the
 dnl    starperl command.
 STAR_DECLARE_DEPENDENCIES([configure], [perl])
 STAR_CHECK_PROGS([env])
+AC_CHECK_PROGS(PDF2PS, 'pdf2ps')
+AC_CHECK_PROGS(PDFTOPS, 'pdftops -eps')
 
 dnl    List the sun/ssn/... numbers which document this package and
 dnl    which are present as .tex files in this directory.
diff --git a/applications/star2html/star2html.in b/applications/star2html/star2html.in
index a47ae39a796..8364518a871 100755
--- a/applications/star2html/star2html.in
+++ b/applications/star2html/star2html.in
@@ -257,6 +257,8 @@
 #          on exit
 #     31-AUG-2013 (TIMJ):
 #        - Convert PDF images to EPS
+#     2013-10-02 (TIMJ):
+#        - Use autoconf to find pdftops
 #     {enter_further_changes_here}
 
 #  Bugs:
@@ -270,7 +272,6 @@ use Cwd;
 use File::Spec;
 use Pod::Usage;
 use Getopt::Long;
-use File::SearchPath qw/ searchpath /;
 
 #  Print introductory message.
 my $announce = "Star2HTML V@PACKAGE_VERSION@";
@@ -435,12 +436,15 @@ if ( ( -T $TEXFILE ) && ( -r $TEXFILE ) ) {
    {
 
      # First work out which converter to use
+     my %TOOLS = ( pdftops => '@PDFTOPS@',
+                   pdf2ps => '@PDF2PS@',
+                 );
+
      my @pdftops;
      for my $tool (qw/ pdftops pdf2ps /) {
-       my $path = searchpath( $tool, $ENV{PATH} );
-       if (defined $path) {
-         push(@pdftops, $tool);
-         push(@pdftops, "-eps") if $tool eq 'pdftops';
+       my $exe = $TOOLS{$tool};
+       if ($exe) {
+         push(@pdftops, split(/\s+/,$exe));
          last;
        }
      }