[OS X TeX] Ghostscript 8.62

Axel E. Retif axel.retif at mac.com
Sun May 11 05:24:51 EDT 2008


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.

Best,

Axel




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