pstopdf missing error

[Brad Dow]

I’m running MacOS 14.2.1, and recently installed EasyABC 1.3.8.1. At startup it throws this error:

[cid:0d10b1ba-3cf6-484b-94b8-6575cdb940a8@namprd02.prod.outlook.com]

From another forum it appears the Sonoma removed the looked-for executable. Is there a way to obtain the missing executable, or at least least configure EABC to not throw an error with every startup?

Or even better, a version of EABC that doesn’t require the missing utility?

[Norman Farrell]

Thank you Brad. Your suggested work around appeared to work for me without displayed errors - however, it did not create a PDF file. I did chmod the shell script to make it executable by all.

[Erik Moll]

Hi, I am using EasyABC on MacOS Sonoma. After installing the latest version of EasyABC - 1.3.8.1 - I had the same problem. I could solve this by installing ghostscript and groff using homebrew package installer (see https://brew.sh/).

brew install ghostscript
brew install groff

After this I fixed the ghostscript executable path in EasyABC settings to point to a small script: /userpath/scripts/dummy.sh

My dummy.sh script is:

#!/bin/bash
i=1;
for param in "$@" 
do
    echo "Parameter - $i: $param" >&2;
    i=$((i + 1));
done
/opt/homebrew/bin/ps2pdf "$1" "$3"

You can observe in the Internals/Messages window that EasyABC calls ps2pdf as follows:

ps2df somePath/temp.ps -o somePath/temp.pdf

The script removes the superfluous "-o" parameter,

Hope this helps....

[David Levine]

I am unable to do this because of my lack of computing skills and knowledge. Is there another
way to get the program? I loved it on my old Mac Airbook.

[Bodo]

As a Linux/UNIX user I don't know if there are easier ways to get the program for Mac, but I wrote a Shell script workaround, similar to the solution here, in one of the issues on GitHub.

https://github.com/jwdj/EasyABC/issues/92

https://github.com/jwdj/EasyABC/issues/80

If you cannot do this yourself, try to find a local Mac expert, or maybe even a Linux expert, who can support you with the Shell script workaround.