Inkscape

PATH for ghostscript

Asked by Becky

I am running inkscape .91 on a Mac with OS X 10.10.5. I need to open an eps file. I have install ghostscript-9.16 but the manual is extremely vague as to how to place "the utility ps2pdf in your “PATH”". Please advise HOW to put ps2pdf in the inkscape PATH.

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su_v (suv-lp) said : 		#1

On 2015-11-16 23:42 (+0100), Becky wrote:
> I have install ghostscript-9.16

Would you mind sharing details about how you installed ghostscript-9.16?

Inkscape.app does add a few well-known default locations to $PATH (a list of directories it knows to search for executables):

/usr/texbin
/opt/local/bin
/sw/bin/
/usr/local/bin

are prepended to the default $PATH as known by the desktop/launch services environment. Any binary/executable named 'ps2pdf' in one of these directories will be found and used by Inkscape.app out-of-the-box.

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Becky (beckydewilde) said : 		#2

I installed a pkg file from http://pages.uoregon.edu/koch/Ghostscript-9.16.pkg, http://pages.uoregon.edu/koch/
It installed without a glitch. It worked as an external editor in Scribus.

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su_v (suv-lp) said : 		#3

According to the 'About the 9.16 Distribution' PDF from that site «Ghostscript binaries are installed in /usr/local/bin». Inkscape.app in theory should be able to use ps2pdf from this installation out-of-the-box.

Could you please relaunch Inkscape, and check whether these file formats are listed among the available ones in the dropdown menu of the 'File > Open' dialog :
- Postscript (*.ps)
- Encapsulated Postscript (*.eps)

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