<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Doris,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have a pdf file called FairEyes.pdf and I converted it to FairEyes.svg using the following command:</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="">dvisvgm --libgs=/usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.53.3/lib/libgs.dylib.9.53 --pdf FairEyes.pdf</span></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class="">Richard Koch<font face="Menlo" class=""><span style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 22, 2020, at 10:18 AM, Doris Behrendt via MacOSX-TeX <<a href="mailto:macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu" class="">macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi all,<br class=""><br class="">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;<br class=""><br class="">I have the following line <br class=""><br class="">export LIBGS="/usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.53.3/lib/libgs.dylib.9.53”<br class=""><br class="">in my .bash_profile. When I call <br class=""><br class="">dvisvgm myfile.dvi<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">the following error message shows up:<br class=""><br class="">processing of PostScript specials is disabled (Ghostscript not found)<br class=""><br class="">It seems I have to use the option —libgs=… explicitly, but how?<br class=""><br class="">dvisvgm --libgs=LIBGS myfile.dvi throws the same error; also does<br class="">dvisvgm --libgs="/usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.53.3/lib/libgs.dylib.9.53" myfile.dvi<br class=""><br class="">when I check the path via echo $LIBGS the path from above is printed.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Can somebody give me a hint what I’m overseeing?<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Doris<br class="">----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br class="">TeX FAQ: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq__;!!C5qS4YX3!UrU1BT31W9no2Rg35u-vgIcBlmS3mVXPxzcQOB-8xcfPkJbgKp9Ic6Ok-IrUD4o$" class="">https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq__;!!C5qS4YX3!UrU1BT31W9no2Rg35u-vgIcBlmS3mVXPxzcQOB-8xcfPkJbgKp9Ic6Ok-IrUD4o$</a> <br class="">List Reminders and Etiquette: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sites.esm.psu.edu/*gray/tex/__;fg!!C5qS4YX3!UrU1BT31W9no2Rg35u-vgIcBlmS3mVXPxzcQOB-8xcfPkJbgKp9Ic6Okxs2hDSQ$" class="">https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sites.esm.psu.edu/*gray/tex/__;fg!!C5qS4YX3!UrU1BT31W9no2Rg35u-vgIcBlmS3mVXPxzcQOB-8xcfPkJbgKp9Ic6Okxs2hDSQ$</a> <br class="">List Archives: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx__;!!C5qS4YX3!UrU1BT31W9no2Rg35u-vgIcBlmS3mVXPxzcQOB-8xcfPkJbgKp9Ic6OkzV_tWDg$" class="">https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx__;!!C5qS4YX3!UrU1BT31W9no2Rg35u-vgIcBlmS3mVXPxzcQOB-8xcfPkJbgKp9Ic6OkzV_tWDg$</a> <br class=""> <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/__;!!C5qS4YX3!UrU1BT31W9no2Rg35u-vgIcBlmS3mVXPxzcQOB-8xcfPkJbgKp9Ic6Ok6HgaNIM$" class="">https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/__;!!C5qS4YX3!UrU1BT31W9no2Rg35u-vgIcBlmS3mVXPxzcQOB-8xcfPkJbgKp9Ic6Ok6HgaNIM$</a> <br class="">TeX on Mac OS X Website: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/__;!!C5qS4YX3!UrU1BT31W9no2Rg35u-vgIcBlmS3mVXPxzcQOB-8xcfPkJbgKp9Ic6OkgeaxtYw$" class="">https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/__;!!C5qS4YX3!UrU1BT31W9no2Rg35u-vgIcBlmS3mVXPxzcQOB-8xcfPkJbgKp9Ic6OkgeaxtYw$</a> <br class="">List Info: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex__;!!C5qS4YX3!UrU1BT31W9no2Rg35u-vgIcBlmS3mVXPxzcQOB-8xcfPkJbgKp9Ic6OknVov-z0$" class="">https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex__;!!C5qS4YX3!UrU1BT31W9no2Rg35u-vgIcBlmS3mVXPxzcQOB-8xcfPkJbgKp9Ic6OknVov-z0$</a> <br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>