[OS X TeX] gs problem? [was Adobe Illustrator]

[George Gratzer]

Hi Gary,

I got  the new one, no help.

GG

On Nov 6, 2006, at 1:13 PM, Gary L. Gray wrote:

>
> On Nov 6, 2006, at 11:52 AM, George Gratzer wrote:
>
>> Gary,
>>
>> Big problem. I updated to the Oct. 15 2006 version of MacTeX and  
>> now TeX Font Outliner no longer works.
>>
>> The error message:
>>
>> dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/liub/libXt.6.dylib
>> Referenced from /usr/local.bin/gs
>> Reason: image not found
>>
>> Did I do something wrong?
>
> Hi George.
>
> We are running the October 16 version of Gerben's TeX installation  
> (installed and updated via i-Installer, not MacTeX). In addition,  
> we are running the October 16 version of Ghostscript, again  
> installed via i-Installer (we haven't yet jumped to Gerben's TeX  
> Live installation). Given that you have installed the October 16  
> version of MacTeX, my guess is that you are running the same stuff.  
> Since the font outliner continues to work for us several times a  
> day, something must be different about our setups.
>
> Since the error involves X11, I am not sure what is going on, since  
> the script, the heart of which is shown below, doesn't use X11 in  
> any way of which I am aware.
>
> on open Filename
> 	(* Add your script to process the names here. *)
> 	set FileInformation to AssembleFileInfo(Filename)
> 	set CDCommand to "cd " & (FDirectory of FileInformation) & "; "
> 	(*
> 	gs -sDEVICE=pswrite -dNOCACHE -sOutputFile=nofont-test.ps -q - 
> dbatch -dNOPAUSE test.pdf -c quit
> 	*)
> 	do shell script (CDCommand & "/usr/local/bin/gs -sDEVICE=pswrite - 
> dNOCACHE -sOutputFile=Outlines-" & (PSName of FileInformation) & " - 
> q -dbatch -dNOPAUSE " & (FName of FileInformation) & " -c quit")
> 	
> 	set Filetarget to ((MacFDirectory of FileInformation) &  
> ":Outlines-" & (PSName of FileInformation))
> 	-- display dialog Filetarget
> 	
> 	try
> 		tell application "Adobe Illustrator" to activate
> 		tell application "Adobe Illustrator" to open file Filetarget
> 	end try
> 	quit
> end open
>
>
> (* ==== Subroutine assemble file related information into record  
> form.  ==== *)
> on AssembleFileInfo(ThisFile)
> 	set FileInfo to (info for ThisFile)
> 	set FileRecord to {FName:(name of FileInfo) as string} as record
> 	set FileRecord to FileRecord & {FExtension:(name extension of  
> FileInfo as string)}
> 	
> 	set TString to ThisFile as string
> 	set TString to (characters 1 through ((length of TString) - 1 -  
> (length of (FName of FileRecord)))) of TString as string
> 	set FileRecord to FileRecord & {MacFDirectory:TString}
> 	set TString to ("\"" & (POSIX path of TString) & "\"")
> 	set FileRecord to FileRecord & {FDirectory:TString}
> 	set TString to (characters 1 through ((length of (FName of  
> FileRecord)) - 1 - (length of FExtension of FileRecord))) of (FName  
> of FileRecord) as string
> 	set FileRecord to FileRecord & {FBaseName:TString}
> 	set TString to (FBaseName of FileRecord) & ".ps"
> 	set FileRecord to FileRecord & {PSName:TString}
> 	return FileRecord
> end AssembleFileInfo
>
>
> Maybe one of the maintainers of the MacTeX package can comment on  
> why this might be happening.
>
> In addition, just to be sure that you have the latest and greatest  
> outliner, I have replaced the .zip archive on the Mac OS X TeX web  
> site with the latest version of "TeX Font Outliner.app" and "PDF  
> Cropper.app". I think that the only recent changes have been to  
> "PDF Cropper.app" (it no longer invokes the Terminal and has some  
> user error checks). You can grab it at:
>
> http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/PDF-Processing-Apps.zip
>
> I hope this helps (though I am not optimistic). :-)
>
> Regards,
>   Gary
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