[OS X TeX] dvisvgm and ghostscript

[koch at math.uoregon.edu]

Did you actually install the library. Note that by default, the Ghostscript package does not. You have to use a Custom install to get it.

Richard Koch



> On Oct 22, 2020, at 10:48 AM, Doris Behrendt via MacOSX-TeX <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Dear Richard,
> 
> in my case:
> 
> bd$ dvisvgm --libgs=/usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.53.3/lib/libgs.dylib.9.53 --pdf ct-logo.pdf
> ERROR: Ghostscript is required to process PDF files
> 
> ???
> 
> Doris
> 
>> On 22. Oct 2020, at 19:39, koch at uoregon.edu wrote:
>> 
>> 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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