how do i point Imagemagick to ghostscript

[bobS]

Hi,

I've installed Imagemagick on my Mac OSX Leopard system using macports. It was working great. I then later discovered that if i wish to be able to use it do its fullest capacity with TYPO3, i needed to also have ghostscript.

So i installed ghostscript using macports.
Now i wish to reconfigure my installed version of Imagemagick to also include the installed version of ghostscript.

Can someone advise me how i would go about this?
Do i need to uninstall and reinstall everything? Or is there a way to point ImageMagick to the path of Ghostscript without uninstalling everything??

I would really appreciate some help, because i cannot find any documentation on the internet, and i've been searching continuously for the past 5 days.

BobS

[fmw42]

Hi,

I've installed Imagemagick on my Mac OSX Leopard system using macports. It was working great. I then later discovered that if i wish to be able to use it do its fullest capacity with TYPO3, i needed to also have ghostscript.

So i installed ghostscript using macports.
Now i wish to reconfigure my installed version of Imagemagick to also include the installed version of ghostscript.

Can someone advise me how i would go about this?
Do i need to uninstall and reinstall everything? Or is there a way to point ImageMagick to the path of Ghostscript without uninstalling everything??

I would really appreciate some help, because i cannot find any documentation on the internet, and i've been searching continuously for the past 5 days.

BobS

Try just re-installing IM. Then issue the command:

convert -list configure

and look at the line starting with DELEGATES. It should contain gs. Here is mine.

DELEGATES bzlib fontconfig freetype jpeg jp2 lcms lqr openexr png tiff x11 xml zlib


I am on Mac OSX Tiger, but did not use MacPorts to install. I just did it manually. Here are some tips I wrote a long time ago.

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=10442

You can also try searching this forum and see if you can find any other help with installing via MacPorts or installing Ghostscript.

[bobS]

Thanks very much.
I will look at re-installing first and hopefully that will work.

[bobS]

I've managed to install ImageMagick WITH ghostscript following your advice by uninstalling and installing again.

This has however not solved my problem. I am still not able to read PDF and AI files using ImageMagick with my CMS Typo3. Also LZW-compressing is not going according to what i expect.
I have set the right paths to ImageMagick and have checked the delegates.xml (am using the most recent ImageMagick version) and it is correctly configured with Ghostscript.

Any more advise??

Thanks

Bob