[OS X TeX] dvisvgm and ghostscript

[Doris Behrendt via MacOSX-TeX]

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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