will dvisvgm ship with support for PostScript specials (Windows, Mac OS)?
jfbu
jfbu at free.fr
Thu Mar 28 08:43:34 CET 2019
Hi Akira,
Le 28 mars 2019 à 01:46, Akira Kakuto <kakuto at w32tex.org> a écrit :
> Hi,
>
>> I apologize in advance for vagueness: a friend of mine
>> on Windows reported, if I understand correctly, that
>> TL2018 dvisvgm.exe does not work with PostScript specials.
>
> dvisvgm for Windows in TeX Live 2018, and 2019 supports PostScript specials.
> In the case of TL-2018, I updated dvisvgm after the first release.
> Therefore I think that a frienf of you has an old dvisvgm.
>
> In TL-2018 and TL-2019, gsdll32.dll is loaded as follows:
> (1) If gsdll32.dll is written in the registry, dvisvgm reads it.
> (2) If a user does not install his own Ghostscript, gsdll32.dll
> is loaded from the preinstalled Ghostscript.
>
> In the present TL-2019,
> dvisvgm -Vy
> shows:
>
> dvisvgm 2.6.3 (TeX Live 2019/W32TeX)
> ------------------------------------
> brotli: 1.0.7
> clipper: 6.2.1
> fontforge: 20160721
> freetype: 2.9.1
> Ghostscript: 9.26
> kpathsea: 6.3.1
> potrace: 1.15
> xxhash: 0.6.5
> zlib: 1.2.11
>
> where, user-installed Ghostscript does not exist, so preinstalled gsdll32.dll is loaded.
>
> In the case of 64bit dvisvgm, users should install
> 64bit Ghostscript, since the preinstalled Ghostscript is 32bit.
>
> Thanks,
> Akira
>
Thanks a lot for these detailed explanations.
In the meantime I got this report from my correspondant to whom I had
indicated https://dvisvgm.de/FAQ/
(this refers to his TeXLive 2018 install)
> For your info ... dvisvgm -h lists the --libgs option ...
>
> However when using this option I do not get the wanted results.
>
> The best way to make it work:
>
> Tell dvisvgm where to find the Ghostscript DLL: Add the path of the Ghostscript bin directory to environment variable PATH, e.g. with PATH=%PATH%;"c:\program files\gs\gs9.23\bin"
>
> This works like a charm.
Best,
Jean-François
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