[OS X TeX] dvisvgm and ghostscript

[koch at uoregon.edu]

Doris,

I have a pdf file called FairEyes.pdf and I converted it to FairEyes.svg using the following command:

	dvisvgm --libgs=/usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.53.3/lib/libgs.dylib.9.53 --pdf FairEyes.pdf

Richard Koch

> On Oct 22, 2020, at 10:18 AM, Doris Behrendt via MacOSX-TeX <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I want to export a tikz graphic to svg as described in the tikz manual. I’m on 10.15.7 and TeXLive 2020; I installed Ghostscript 9.53.3 from Dick Kochs Website, with the libgs.dylib.9.53 file included;
> 
> I have the following line 
> 
> export LIBGS="/usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.53.3/lib/libgs.dylib.9.53”
> 
> in my .bash_profile. When I call 
> 
> dvisvgm myfile.dvi
> 
> 
> the following error message shows up:
> 
> processing of PostScript specials is disabled (Ghostscript not found)
> 
> It seems I have to use the option —libgs=… explicitly, but how?
> 
> dvisvgm --libgs=LIBGS myfile.dvi throws the same error; also does
> dvisvgm --libgs="/usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.53.3/lib/libgs.dylib.9.53" myfile.dvi
> 
> when I check the path via echo $LIBGS the path from above is printed.
> 
> 
> Can somebody give me a hint what I’m overseeing?
> 
> 
> 
> Doris
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