[OS X TeX] Ghostscript 8.62

Axel E. Retif axel.retif at mac.com
Sun May 11 05:33:27 EDT 2008


On  11 May, 2008, at 04:24, Axel E. Retif wrote:

> On  9 May, 2008, at 15:46, Richard Koch wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> In the lull before the storm of constructing MacTeX 2008, I've  
>> been thinking about the three packages in MacTeX which directly  
>> install packages from Gerben Wierda's distribution: Ghostscript,  
>> ImageMagick, and the Font Utilities
>
> [...]
>
>> The most important is Ghostscript. I have constructed an  
>> experimental package using the latest sources as of Febuary 29,  
>> 2008. You can install this package, test, and then revert to the  
>> older version if necessary. I'd appreciate further testing,  
>> particularly since the package must run on PPC systems 10.3, 10.4,  
>> and 10.5, both with and without X11 support, and on Intel systems  
>> 10.4 and 10.5, again both with and without X11 support.
>
> I have tried in an Intel machine with 10.4.11 (with X11). I have  
> tested it with various documents, including some with psTricks.  
> Everything seems OK, except that I have no Ghostview (gv). In my  
> PPC (also with X11), where I still have GW's Ghostscript, I have  
> Ghostview.

So sorry! Checking with i-Installer, I see it is a different i- 
Package than Ghostscript, so I guess I just didn't installed in the  
Intel machine.

Sorry again!

Axel




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