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RMagick on OSX revisited

Dan Benjamin posted another nice getting started article, this time on installing RMagick on OSX from source. I tried it and things went smoothly, awesome right?

Well, a little bit later came a nice howto to make snazzy Web 2.0-like graphics using RMagick. It sounded sweet and I tried it, I even had Joe time how long it would take so we could compare it to a typical Photoshop workflow. From copy to paste and execution the whole process took about 6 seconds. There was a problem though…no text. I investigated and in order to annotate the graphics, Ghostscript needs to be installed. There’s a nice FAQ for OSX that uses Darwinports, but if you’d like to stay in the original spirit of Dan’s original article and install it under /usr/local/ you’ll need to try the following:

cd /usr/local/src/ curl http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ghostscript/ghostscript-8.54-gpl.tar.gz | tar xfz - cd ghostscript-8.54-gpl/ ./configure make sudo make install

cd .. curl ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/GPL/current/ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz | tar xfz - sudo mv fonts /usr/local/share/ghostscript

cd ImageMagick-6.2.8 make clean ./configure make sudo make install

sudo gem uninstall rmagick sudo gem install rmagick

That gives you ghostscript and the ghostscript fonts, and voila annotated graphics!