Ghostscript problem in the MacTeX 2023

[Sarthak]

Dear Ettore, Norbert and support,

I am pleased to inform that everything has been sorted out now by what
Richard just suggested: Changing the following paths in the
preferences/settings did the trick:

   1. In TeXShop, under the Engine tab, changed the "Distiller
   (ghostscript)" field to    "/opt/homebrew/bin".
   2. In LaTeXiT, under the Typesetting tab, changed
   the "Ghostscript (gs)" field to    "/opt/homebrew/bin/gs", and
   the "ps2pdf" field to    "/opt/homebrew/bin/ps2pdf".



Thanks for the impeccable support!
Sarthak.

On Sat, Jun 3, 2023 at 8:15 PM Ettore Aldrovandi <ealdrov at math.fsu.edu>
wrote:

> Hi Sarthak,
>
> great.  Everything should be functional, then.  Concerning LaTeXit, I
> rarely—if ever—use it, but there should be a configuration panel where you
> can tell it where to find the utilities as well as the main binaries. (I’ve
> had to do something similar, because I install TeXLive under /opt/texlive
> and brew stuff under /opt/brew, as I’ve never liked their takeover of
> /usr/local. So for me their switching to /opt/homebrew is a plus, but this
> is an OT discussion.)
>
> —Ettore
>
> On Jun 3, 2023, at 10:31, Sarthak <vijaysarthak23 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Ettore.
>
> Yes, symlinks to gs* binaries are there in    /opt/homebrew/bin.
>  (Indeed, I am on Apple Silicon.) Yes, it looks like the trouble (as
> Richard Koch of MacTeX pointed out to me in a recent email) is the result
> of brew changing directories for Apple Silicon devices, and still
> downloading Ghostscript as a dependency and not via MacTeX pkg (as you
> point out).
>
>
> Thanks,
> Sarthak.
>
> On Sat, Jun 3, 2023 at 6:05 PM Ettore Aldrovandi <ealdrov at math.fsu.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Sarthak, Norbert, Dick and others,
>>
>> in the original post on tex.stackexchange.com, Sarthak installed MacTeX
>> via the brew —cask method. This results in the MacTeX dmg being installed
>> and it is not a brew installation of TeXLive. Looking  at the cask formula,
>> it looks like you end up with the a standard MacTeX installation with the
>> GUI utilities but without Ghostscript, which is installed (by dependency)
>> via brew.
>>
>> Sarthak, If this is a Silicon, the gs* binaries should be in symlinked
>> into /opt/homebrew/bin, maybe?
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> —Ettore
>>
>> Ettore Aldrovandi
>> Department of Mathematics, Florida State University
>> 1017 Academic Way
>> Tallahassee, FL 32306-4510, USA
>> https://www.math.fsu.edu/~ealdrov
>>
>> On Jun 2, 2023, at 22:01, Norbert Preining <norbert at preining.info> wrote:
>>
>>   2. In your last email, you meant "*...installed MacTeX not with
>> brew...*",
>>   instead of "*...installed MacTeX now with brew...*", correct?
>>
>>
>> No, I meant
>> I installed MacTeX with the proper MacTeX installer
>> You installed MacTeX with brew.
>> And as DIck's answer showed, that might be the problem.
>>
>> BTW, please don't cross-post to texhax, support, .... at the same time,
>> thanks
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Norbert
>>
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