On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Michael Barton <michael.bar...@asu.edu> wrote: > > So that was easier to test than I thought. I had not reinstalled X11 on one > of my computers since updating to OS X 10.8. Even with PIL installed, here is > what happens: > > 1. When I click the preview button, I get the following screen. > > > If I click "continue" it takes me to the XQuartz project site to install > XQuartz. If I click cancel, I get the following error: > > > So this is a PIL/Ghostscript/X11 issue. Note that Ghostscript IS installed on > my Mac by default. > > After installing a XQuartz, the composer preview works. This is not a huge > problem on the Mac then, but it seems like people should not need to install > X11 solely for converting pdf2png. No other way?
I don't know how Ghostscript handles PostScript and why is X11 needed. And I can't see any way to change it. Anna > > Michael > ____________________ > C. Michael Barton > Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity > Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change > Arizona State University > > voice: 480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-727-9746 (CSDC) > fax: 480-965-7671 (SHESC), 480-727-0709 (CSDC) > www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton, http://csdc.asu.edu > > > > > > > > > > > > On Oct 25, 2012, at 1:13 PM, Anna Kratochvílová <kratocha...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Michael Barton <michael.bar...@asu.edu> > wrote: > > Anna, > > I am happy to test. But composer preview has worked for me in the past once I > installed PIL. I do have Ghostscript. I installed it manually long ago, but > I'm pretty sure that it comes with the Mac OS these days. > > > I thougt the preview was not working for you because of the ticket > [1]. If it is working there is probably nothing to test. > > Thanks anyway, > Anna > > > [1] http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1715 > > Michael > ____________________ > C. Michael Barton > Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity > Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change > Arizona State University > > voice: 480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-727-9746 (CSDC) > fax: 480-965-7671 (SHESC), 480-727-0709 (CSDC) > www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton, http://csdc.asu.edu > > > > > > > > > > > > On Oct 25, 2012, at 12:11 AM, Anna Kratochvílová <kratocha...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > could you do a test for me with the cartographic composer? The preview > can be broken for several reasons [1]. Could you check that you have > Ghostscript installed? Then, if you have it, try if it is on the PATH. > If not, could you put it on the PATH? Then it could work on Mac. But > there is probably no chance to make it work on Windows. > > Thanks, > > Anna > > [1] http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1554#comment:5 > > > _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev