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Re: [TeXmacs] silent failure on PDF export (bug?)


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  • From: Miguel de Benito Delgado <address@hidden>
  • To: address@hidden
  • Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] silent failure on PDF export (bug?)
  • Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:14:47 +0200
Right. Any one volunteering to code this? X-D

Tip: look for "interactive" in the scheme code for ideas on how to
code a simple yes/no dialog. But ideally the dialog should provide
several options: never show again, input path to gs, accept, cancel.
This can be done with the new widget system and a couple user
preferences. Hopefully the docs would help with that (in "Help->Scheme
extensions->customizing and extending the blahblah"). If done
generally enough this could even be used for plugins, etc.
________________
Miguel de Benito.


On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 5:26 AM, Yin Wang <address@hidden> wrote:
> It was compiling many many other things ranging from m4 to bzip ... I
> wonder if there is something wrong with the dependencies, because I
> just asked to install ghostscript.
>
> It is better to give the message that "gs is missing" when the user
> tries to convert to PDF and tell them what to do (download it or use
> ps2pdf). A message when the program starts can be annoying because the
> user may not want to use the PDF functionality at all.
>
>
> -- Yin
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 8:23 PM, François-Xavier Thomas
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> My GS directory takes ~40M. Maybe there are some compilation artifacts
>> that won't be there after you finish the installation?
>>
>> Anyway, there really should be a warning about missing dependencies when
>> you start TeXmacs. It really is a bad user experience to have to go all
>> the way to the mailing lists to discover that, oh, yeah, by the way, you
>> need GhostScript...
>>
>> On Oct 25, 2012, at 5:18 PM, Yin Wang wrote:
>>
>>> Wow I downloaded macports and typed
>>>
>>>> sudo port install ghostscript
>>>
>>> It started to compile everything and so far /opt took over 500MB disk
>>> space...
>>>
>>>
>>> -- yin
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Miguel de Benito Delgado
>>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Yin Wang <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>> Does TeXmacs rely on ghostscript?
>>>>
>>>> For conversion to pdf it does until someone has the will and time to
>>>> finish the native pdf renderer.
>>>>
>>>>> I don't have gs on my mac and I
>>>>> haven't found a easy way to install it. The GS website doesn't provide
>>>>> a mac os package.
>>>>
>>>> Yep, that sucks. I think the easiest and cleanest way is to use
>>>> macports. Install it, then type in a terminal
>>>>
>>>> sudo port install ghostscript
>>>>
>>>> You'll have gs installed in /opt/local/bin (might need to add that to
>>>> your path, I don't remember if macports does that by default)
>>>>
>>>>> Can I do without GS?
>>>>
>>>> If you use ps2pdf, yes, but some other features (related to image
>>>> support) also use gs, so you are better off simply installing
>>>> macports. It's really easy and uninstalling is completely clean.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> ________________
>>>> Miguel de Benito.
>>

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