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Reputation: 940

To view dvi files under osx 10.9. X11 and Ghostscript issue

I just have upgraded to os x 10.9 (clean install), but am finding issues with ghostscipt (or with X11-quartz). I need to view a dvi file (from latex) with this line command in Terminal

$ xdvi doc.dvi

The text appears fine, but the figures (.eps, .ps) do not show up. It left blank rectangles instaed. I get this error message

Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
gs: Unknown device: x11
gs: Unrecoverable error: undefined in .uninstallpagedevice
gs: Operand stack:
gs:     defaultdevice
xdvi-xaw: Warning: Read_from_gs returned 0 bytes

P.S. I installed XQuartz 2.7.5 (xorg-server 1.14.4), and GPL Ghostscript 9.07. Any guidance please?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1202

Answers (2)

rfabbri
rfabbri

Reputation: 253

The first answer is correct, as re-installing MacTex should relink gs to gs-X11. You can also just relink it yourself. For instance:

 ls -l /usr/local/bin/gs

/usr/local/bin/gs -> /usr/local/bin/gs-noX11

 sudo ln -sf   /usr/local/bin/gs-X11 /usr/local/bin/gs

Now xdvi displays the images. Tested on Mavericks 10.9.4.

Upvotes: 2

Courier
Courier

Reputation: 940

I reinstalled latex with MacTex again and now seems working fine.

Perhaps one needs to first install ghostscript then latex (?)

But note that I did some manipulations prior to this... In fact I reinstalled Ghostscript with mac ports. But even at that time it did not work, until I reinstalled Latex as highlighted above.

Upvotes: 0

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