TexText on MacOS¶

Caution

These installation instrcuctions are not fully tested. Please report any issues, comments or hints to https://github.com/textext/textext/issues/new

To install TexText on MacOS do the following steps:

Install dependencies of TexText
Install TexText

Install dependencies¶

Install inkscape¶

To install using homebrew:

brew cask install inkscape

Install python2.7¶

Make sure that a Python 2.7 distribution is installed and found by your system. Make sure it contains the Tkinter package so TexText will run at least with a basic interface.

To install using homebrew and forcing the Tkinter package to be installed:

brew cask install python@2 --with-tcl-tk

Install PyGTK2 (recommended)¶

Compared to the Tkinter interface the PyGTK interface will offer a lot more functionality. Hence, install the following packages.

python-gtk2
python-gtksourceview2 (enables syntax highlighting)

To install using homebrew:

brew install pygtk gtksourceview

Install a pdf->svg converter¶

You have two options: pdf2svg (recommended) or pstoedit + ghostscript:

Install pdf2svg (recommended)¶

Install the pdf2svg package

To install using homebrew:

brew install pdf2svg

Install pstoedit (not recommended)¶

Some versions pstoedit fails to produce svg so it’s preferable to use pdf2svg.

To use pstoedit converter install the pstoedit package and check versions of installed versions of pstoedit and ghostscript

To install using homebrew:

brew install ghostscript pstoedit

To check versions run:

pstoedit --version
ghostscript --version

Warning

Those combinations of pstoedit and ghostscript versions fails to produce svg on most distributions (see bb issue 48):

`pstoedit`	`ghostscript`
3.70	9.22

Please report any observations or problems in issue #30.

Install pdflatex/lualatex/xelatex¶

pdflatex, lualatex and xelatex are part of mactex package.

To install using homebrew:

brew install mactex

Install TexText¶

Download the most recent package from GitHub release page (direct links: .zip, .tar.gz)
Extract the package and change to created directory.
Run setup.py from your terminal:
```
python setup.py --inkscape-executable=/usr/local/bin/inkscape
```
The script will check if all requirements described in Install dependencies are met. If so, it will install the extension files into the user’s Inkscape configuration directory (usually this is ~/.config/inkscape/extensions). If not, instructions are given helping to fix the problem.
Note

If you would like to skip the requirement checks during installation call the script from the command line as follows:
```
python setup.py --inkscape-executable=/usr/local/bin/inkscape --skip-requirements-check
```