I'll keep this short and sweet; Emacs can't find gs
, which has been installed via brew and works fine.
Error
PDF2DSC sentinel: Searching for program: No such file or directory, gs
MWE
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
This is a test. $x^4$.
\end{document}
And my PATH
after init: "/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin:/usr/local:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"
brew
placed a symlink to Ghostscript under /usr/local/bin
->
/usr/local/Cellar/ghostscript/9.06/bin/gs
. (Adding this directory doesn't help.)
Is this a problem with preview
in some way, or is it a problem with Emacs itself? (I should note that running the shell command directly (M-! gs
) works as expected, and running psf2dsc
manually also seems to work as expected (no errors, mwe.dsc
produced).)
Per @Charles' request, echo $PATH
produces /usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin:/usr/local:/usr/local/Cellar/ghostscript/9.06/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
under M-x eshell
.
Per @Charles' request, M-x preview-report-bug
produces
Emacs : GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.36)
of 2012-08-27 on bob.porkrind.org
Package: 11.86
current state:
==============
(setq
AUCTeX-version "11.86"
LaTeX-command-style '(("" "%(PDF)%(latex) %S%(PDFout)"))
image-types '(png gif tiff jpeg xpm xbm pbm)
preview-image-type 'png
preview-image-creators '((dvipng
(open preview-gs-open preview-dvipng-process-setup)
(place preview-gs-place)
(close preview-dvipng-close))
(png (open preview-gs-open) (place preview-gs-place)
(close preview-gs-close))
(jpeg (open preview-gs-open)
(place preview-gs-place) (close preview-gs-close))
(pnm (open preview-gs-open) (place preview-gs-place)
(close preview-gs-close))
(tiff (open preview-gs-open)
(place preview-gs-place) (close preview-gs-close))
)
preview-dvipng-image-type 'png
preview-dvipng-command "dvipng -picky -noghostscript %d -o \"%m/prev%%03d.png\""
preview-pdf2dsc-command "pdf2dsc %s.pdf %m/preview.dsc"
preview-gs-command "gs"
preview-gs-options '("-q" "-dSAFER" "-dNOPAUSE" "-DNOPLATFONTS" "-dPrinted"
"-dTextAlphaBits=4" "-dGraphicsAlphaBits=4")
preview-gs-image-type-alist '((png png "-sDEVICE=png16m")
(dvipng png "-sDEVICE=png16m")
(jpeg jpeg "-sDEVICE=jpeg")
(pnm pbm "-sDEVICE=pnmraw")
(tiff tiff "-sDEVICE=tiff12nc"))
preview-fast-conversion t
preview-prefer-TeX-bb nil
preview-dvips-command "dvips -Pwww -i -E %d -o %m/preview.000"
preview-fast-dvips-command "dvips -Pwww %d -o %m/preview.ps"
preview-scale-function 'preview-scale-from-face
preview-LaTeX-command '("%`%l \"\\nonstopmode\\nofiles\\PassOptionsToPackage{"
("," . preview-required-option-list)
"}{preview}\\AtBeginDocument{\\ifx\\ifPreview\\undefined" preview-default-preamble "\\fi}\"%' %t")
preview-required-option-list '("active" "tightpage" "auctex"
(preview-preserve-counters "counters"))
preview-preserve-counters nil
preview-default-option-list '("displaymath" "floats" "graphics" "textmath"
"sections" "footnotes")
preview-default-preamble '("\\RequirePackage["
("," . preview-default-option-list)
"]{preview}[2004/11/05]")
preview-LaTeX-command-replacements nil
preview-dump-replacements '(preview-LaTeX-command-replacements
("\\`\\([^ ]+\\)\\(\\( +-\\([^ \\\\\"]\\|\\\\\\.\\|\"[^\"]*\"\\)*\\)*\\)\\(.*\\)\\'" "\\1 -ini -interaction=nonstopmode \"&\\1\" " preview-format-name ".ini \\5")
)
preview-undump-replacements '(("\\`\\([^ ]+\\) .*? \"\\\\input\" \\(.*\\)\\'"
"\\1 -interaction=nonstopmode \"&"
preview-format-name "\" \\2")
)
preview-auto-cache-preamble 'ask
preview-TeX-style-dir "/Users/sean/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-11.86/latex"
)
Output from running `gs -h':
Followed by a message: Searching for program: No such file or directory, gs
preview-latex
works fine under it. – Sean Allred Nov 23 '12 at 17:36M-x eshell
) in an instance of Emacs, and say what result you get fromecho $PATH
? – Charles Stewart Feb 24 '13 at 14:02/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin:/usr/local:/usr/local/Cellar/ghostscript/9.06/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
– Sean Allred Feb 24 '13 at 14:16M-x preview-report-bug RET
, and paste the results (which might be quite long) into your question? – Charles Stewart Feb 25 '13 at 6:35