enabling EPS/PS import with Inkscape 1.1

situation

Inkscape offers EPS/PS import if it finds binaries like ps2pdf in $PATH. These binaries are part of Ghostscript and came bundled with previous versions of Inkscape (<1.1). Inkscape >=1.1 will no longer bundle Ghostscript (reason: license compliance/legal consultation), effectively removing out of the box support for EPS/PS import.

We need to figure out and document a user friendly way of using a user-supplied installation of Ghostscript.

quick & dirty

Open the terminal and enter

export PATH=$PATH:<path to your Ghostscript installation>
/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/MacOS/inkscape

version Info:

Inkscape Version: =>1.1
Operating System: macOS
Operating System version: 10.11-11.x

Edited Jan 14, 2021 by René de Hesselle

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