<div dir="ltr">I cannot run Ghostscript from the terminal. I get the error "-bash: gs: command not found".<div>The symbolic link within /usr/local/bin already points to noX11: "gs -> /usr/local/bin/gs-noX11"</div><div><br></div><div>So it's not an X11 problem then? Is there something else missing since the command cannot be found?</div><div><br></div><div>If I type "sudo gs" I can see the output you mailed. I think there is some kind of permission error. I cannot cd into the /usr/local/bin-Directory, too, because of an permission error! Somehow everything is working in texstudio (used it before) but not ghostscript!</div><div><br></div><div>Sefer</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-12-10 18:41 GMT+01:00 Richard Koch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:koch@uoregon.edu" target="_blank">koch@uoregon.edu</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Can you run Ghostscript from the Terminal? Open Terminal in /Applications/Utilities<div>and at the prompt, type</div><div><br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>gs</div><div><br></div><div>You should see</div><div><br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:Menlo;font-size:11px">GPL Ghostscript 9.16 (2015-03-30)</span><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo">Copyright (C) 2015 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved.</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo">This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;line-height:normal">If not the problem could be interaction between X11 and Ghostscript. MacTeX</div><div style="margin:0px;line-height:normal">actually installs two binaries named gs-X11 and gs-noX11. The gs file is just</div><div style="margin:0px;line-height:normal">a link to one of these binaries. </div><div style="margin:0px;line-height:normal"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;line-height:normal">If you upgrade OS X, in some cases X11 is removed. Then gs-X11 can no longer</div><div style="margin:0px;line-height:normal">run. There are two solutions:</div><div style="margin:0px;line-height:normal"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;line-height:normal"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>a) Install X11 by using Google to go to the download spot (no longer Apple)</div><div style="margin:0px;line-height:normal"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;line-height:normal">OR</div><div style="margin:0px;line-height:normal"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;line-height:normal"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>b) Rewrite the symbolic link /usr/local/bin/gs to point to gs-noX11.</div><div style="margin:0px;line-height:normal"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;line-height:normal"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;line-height:normal">Dick Koch</div><div style="margin:0px;line-height:normal"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;line-height:normal"><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5"><div>On Dec 10, 2015, at 9:33 AM, Se Fer <<a href="mailto:don.sefer@gmail.com" target="_blank">don.sefer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br></div></div><div><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Hello all<div><br></div><div>hope I can find some help here. I have an (now again) fresh installation of MacTeX 2015 running on OS X Yosmite. I haven't installed any other version of ghostscript but the MacTeX-package. </div><div><br></div><div>I removed everything on my drive today to start fresh because I am not able to fix the following error:</div><div><br></div><div>"Error: Cannot open Ghostscript for piped input"</div><div><br></div><div>Complete error as an example:</div><div><br></div><div>"epstopdf ($Id: <a href="http://epstopdf.pl/" target="_blank">epstopdf.pl</a> 36129 2015-01-24 00:30:11Z karl $) 2.23 !!! Error: Cannot open Ghostscript for piped input: gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=pic/webrtc-triangle-eps-converted-to.pdf -dPDFSETTINGS#/prepress -dMaxSubsetPct=100 -dSubsetFonts=true -dEmbedAllFonts=true -dAutoRotatePages#/None - -c quit"</div><div><br></div><div>Both texpad and TeXstudio can't find a valid ghostscript installation and their fields are blank. I tried adding the following command to the Ghostscript-field within TeXstudio ' "/usr/local/bin/gs "?<a href="http://am.ps/" target="_blank">am.ps</a>" ' but it doesn't fix the error.</div><div><br></div><div>Running "which gs" in terminal gives no output. But running "sudo which gs" I get the following output: "/usr/local/bin/gs" ...</div><div>It looks like everything is in place according to the file structure given from the package-file.</div><div><br></div><div>Yours faithfully</div><div>Sefer</div>
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