[OS X TeX] dvisvgm and ghostscript

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Oct 22, 2020, at 2:08 PM, Ettore Aldrovandi <ealdrov at math.fsu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Most likely .bash_profile is not the right startup file for that variable, because it’s only read by login shell. Try putting the same export command in .bashrc, open a new instance (new window or tab) of terminal and see if it works. 
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> —Ettore
> 
> Ettore Aldrovandi
> Department of Mathematics, Florida State University
> 1017 Academic Way                *   http://www.math.fsu.edu/~ealdrov
> Tallahassee, FL 32306-4510, USA * * aldrovandi at math dot fsu dot edu
> 
>> On Oct 22, 2020, at 13:18, 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

Howdy,

Hmmm... if you're using the default shell in Catalina, zsh, .bash_profile, .bashrc and .profile won't be read be default even when using Terminal which is a login shell.

But the direct use as Dick Koch mentioned should still work fine. I've checked it on mys system and I successfully converted a pdf to svg.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)