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[Yin Wang <address@hidden>]

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.