texlive-basic: dvipdf not working

[diochnos]

Hi,

It appears that dvipdf is no longer working. Feeding a valid .dvi file to dvipdf produces an empty 1-page pdf document. I attach an example.

• The traditional route: latex, latex, dvipdf is _not_ working.
• However, there are workarounds. The following are working and (in my simple example) produce a pdf file with the expected content: (a) latex, latex, dvips, ps2pdf (b) latex, latex, dvipdfm (c) pdflatex

I have not tested something else. This (dvipdf) should be part of the texlive-basic port, but since I am not entirely sure, I am not indicating anything on the submission.

[diochnos]

A simple tex file to reproduce the issue.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

You can check which port installed a file with port provides, e.g.

port provides /opt/local/bin/dvipdf

[diochnos]

In that case, the following is puzzling perhaps?

$ port provides /opt/macports/latest/bin/dvipdf
/opt/macports/catalina/bin/dvipdf is provided by: ghostscript
$ port provides /opt/macports/latest/bin/dvipdfm
/opt/macports/catalina/bin/dvipdfm is provided by: texlive-basic

Also:

$ port provides /opt/macports/latest/bin/ps2pdf
/opt/macports/catalina/bin/ps2pdf is provided by: ghostscript
$ port provides /opt/macports/latest/bin/pdflatex
/opt/macports/catalina/bin/pdflatex is provided by: texlive-latex
$ 

[drkp (Dan Ports)]

This seems to work now - I believe it was a bug in earlier versions of ghostscript, so one of the updates to the port between now and then fixed it: ​http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=15d95340389f0f46bd214803ec19685c0a738a0e

Please reopen if you're still having problems.