imagemagick with pdf

[Stephen Langer]

On 2/20/14 10:57 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 1:52 AM, Sterling Smith <smithsp at fusion.gat.com
> <mailto:smithsp at fusion.gat.com>> wrote:
>
>     Roger,
>
>     I have ghostscript installed, but
>     port contents ghostscript | grep convert
>
>
> "convert" is from ImageMagick; it uses delegates to do various things,
> and one of those delegates (in this case, for PostScript and PDF) is
> ghostscript. Roger is asking why the delegation from ImageMagick to
> ghostscript is failing.
>
> (I do not have an answer, but the fact that it's trying to open a *.la
> file makes me think this involves Mavericks, which I do not run.)
>

I have no trouble using convert on pdf files on Mavericks, except that 
it claims that some pdfs are badly constructed, even though Preview can 
open them.

  -- Steve