<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Can you run Ghostscript from the Terminal? Open Terminal in /Applications/Utilities<div class="">and at the prompt, type</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>gs</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You should see</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px;" class="">GPL Ghostscript 9.16 (2015-03-30)</span><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class="">Copyright (C) 2015 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class="">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;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">If not the problem could be interaction between X11 and Ghostscript. MacTeX</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">actually installs two binaries named gs-X11 and gs-noX11. The gs file is just</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">a link to one of these binaries. </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">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;" class="">run. There are two solutions:</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>a) Install X11 by using Google to go to the download spot (no longer Apple)</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">OR</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>b) Rewrite the symbolic link /usr/local/bin/gs to point to gs-noX11.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Dick Koch</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 10, 2015, at 9:33 AM, Se Fer <<a href="mailto:don.sefer@gmail.com" class="">don.sefer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hello all<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I removed everything on my drive today to start fresh because I am not able to fix the following error:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">"Error: Cannot open Ghostscript for piped input"</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Complete error as an example:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">"epstopdf ($Id: <a href="http://epstopdf.pl/" class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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/" class="">am.ps</a>" ' but it doesn't fix the error.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Running "which gs" in terminal gives no output. But running "sudo which gs" I get the following output: "/usr/local/bin/gs" ...</div><div class="">It looks like everything is in place according to the file structure given from the package-file.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yours faithfully</div><div class="">Sefer</div>
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