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I have a weird problem with LaTeXiT 2.8.0 on MAC 10.11.5

It isn't rendering anymore. Even a simple \alpha isn't shown although there is no error message. I tried all different modes like Align, Display, Inline, Text and even Auto.

Rendering doesn't work

Drag and drop my old formulas from the built-in bibliography will work, formulas are rendered correctly, but pressing "LaTeX it!" button will dismiss the content without any error messages.

Can anyone help me, please?

J.E.K
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After flailing around with this problem, I have discovered that you must first follow the instructions referenced on the "Upgrading for El Capitan" page: upgrade LaTeXit to 2.7.5, and then open the "Preferences/Typesetting" pane and clicking the "Reset..." button. This finds the locations for the installed pdflatex and Ghostscript.

However, there is one more step needed. The default Ghostscript call is listed as:

/usr/local/bin/gs-noX11

if you replace this with:

/usr/local/bin/gs

the problem is solved.

Glen
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  • Welcome to TeX.SX! On my recent installation of TeX Live 2016, /usr/local/bin/gs is a symbolic link to /usr/local/bin/gs-X11. I don't know whether the installer looks whether XQuartz is installed on the machine and decides consequently. – egreg Jun 09 '16 at 20:38
  • Thanks for your kind welcome. I'd still appreciate an answer to the question I asked below, that you deleted. I am not trying to be negative, I really am asking for my future edification. – Glen Jun 09 '16 at 20:44
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    Oddly, on my install, /usr/local/bin/gs is a simlink to usr/local/Cellar/ghostscript/9.19/bin/gs. Apparently, homebrew replaced the default simlink with its own. Or something. – Glen Jun 09 '16 at 20:47
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    This is not a forum; the space below questions is reserved for answers. Please ask a new question and link to this one. – egreg Jun 09 '16 at 20:47
  • About gs: I installed TeX Live 2016 a few days ago, so apparently it overrode Homebrew's ghostscript. – egreg Jun 09 '16 at 20:51
  • "Please ask a new question and link to this one."

    OK. That seems suboptimal, but if that's how it works, fine.

     – Glen Jun 09 '16 at 21:03
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    @Glen: Thanks for response. Replacing the path for Ghostscript call to usr/local/bin/gs solved the problem – J.E.K Jun 10 '16 at 07:48
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    @egreg: MacTeX is broken into three parts. One installs The full TeX Live along with some data structures, etc., together the PATH correct and allow for easy switching of active distribution. A second part installs a set of GUI apps and some documentation. The final part installs Ghostscript. By default all parts are installed but you can do a custom install and uncheck the Ghostscript install for just such a situation. – Herb Schulz Jun 14 '16 at 14:39
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    Thank you so much for this answer---I stopped using this app for years because I couldn't solve this problem, but your fix did it for me. Thanks! – wil3 Jul 29 '22 at 01:02
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Am using El (Horrible) Capitan and I had the same problem. The only thing that solved my problem was:

$ brew link --overwrite ghostscript

How I found it? I opened the terminal typed:

$ gs

The output was

GPL Ghostscript 9.16: Can't find initialization file gs_init.ps.

Bobyandbob
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Lucas
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  • Welcome to TeX.SX! Some helpful informatione:How do I write a good answer? – Bobyandbob Oct 27 '17 at 10:09
  • Meet the same problem on Mac Catalina 10.15.6. This helped me! After running the brew link command, the symbolic link /usr/local/bin/gs -> /usr/local/bin/gs-noX11 changes to /usr/local/bin/gs -> ../Cellar/ghostscript/9.53.3/bin/gs. And after following Glen's instructions, the problem has been solved. – Ghrua Nov 13 '20 at 03:40
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Please go to http://www.tug.org/mactex/sierra.html and read the information there as well as the `Updating for El Capitan' document linked there.

Note: the original link (http://www.tug.org/mactex/elcapitan.html) was broken.

jvriesem
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Herb Schulz
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  • Thanks for your response. I followed the instructions 'MacTeX-2015 and El Capitan' and found that everything was already set to the right path. So there is still the same problem... no rendering, no error messages. – J.E.K Jun 10 '16 at 07:41
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    Finally changing the Ghostscript path to usr/local/bin/gs solved the problem. – J.E.K Jun 10 '16 at 07:50
  • If you had xQuartz when you installed MacTeX make sure it's updated to the latest version under El Capitan. – Herb Schulz Jun 13 '16 at 20:13
  • @HerbSchulz == authoritative source. – jvriesem Oct 19 '19 at 16:02
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I had this issue but on Apple Silicon (M1 Pro, to help search engines...). The problem was that LatexIt was looking in /usr/local/bin, but brew installs everything in /opt/homebrew/bin/ on Apple Silicon.

I had to open LatexIt, and in the prompts for ghostscript, ps2pdf, and dvipdf point it to /opt/homebrew/bin/gs, /opt/homebrew/bin/ps2pdf, and /opt/homebrew/bin/dvipdf respectively.

Generally, you can find gs/etc. by typing this in your terminal:

which gs

I had the brew-installed mactex bundle version 2021.0328, on macOS Monterey 12.3.1.

Amin
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