[Bug 67465] EPS rendering: locating pstoedit on Mac a problem

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67465

--- Comment #13 from V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> ---
(In reply to Tor Lillqvist from comment #11)
> I think we are just asking for trouble if we start running random 3rd-party
> binaries from /usr/local/bin  (which normally does not even exist on a Mac)
> (or even /opt/local/bin, which probably only a dozen Mac users in the world
> even have).
> 
> Such random behaviour might be what Linux users expect, but is not proper on
> a Mac.
> 

Hmmm, not sure that makes any sense at all. By that rational any of the
suitably licensed and compiled helper projects in /external are questionable as
"not proper" on OS X or Windows builds.

> Either we provide the EPS export functionality using code bundled with
> LibreOffice, or use system-provided APIs for the functionality (there might
> well be such, at least the normal print dialog on OS X has a "Save as
> PostScript" choice in addition to "Save as PDF"). Or then we shouldn't even
> pretend to have such functionality.
> 

Absent a native postscript/eps interpreter--bug 67464--likely also landing in
/external, LibreOffice will remain dependent on installations of 3rd party
image handlers ghostscript, pstoedit and Imagemagick's convert.

Folks should understand that it is extremely rare that the Windows user base
ever has ghostscript installed, let alone ImageMagick or pstoedit. And, how
many Linux distros actually bundle ImageMagick or pstoedit?

So, sorry but it will remain incumbent on the user to configure their system
with the "helper" programs that LO depends on and provide proper path.
LibreOffice may be able to address that as Michael M. suggests.

Meanwhile some effort to improve coverage in the Help and Wiki for OS X?

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