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I'm trying to follow the documentation on how to get mathpsfrag set up on Windows 8 (64-bit). It failed at the line

If[MathPSfragConfigurationTest[] === True, okPrint["Passed"], errorPrint["Failed"]];

saying that it found latex and dvips but not ghostscript. So then I found the paths for latex.exe, dvips.exe, and gswin64c.exe and put them into the UnPSfrag part as so:

SetOptions[UnPSfrag,
    GhostscriptExecutable -> "C:\\Program Files\\gs\\gs9.15\\bin\\gswin64c",
    LaTeXExecutable ->    "C:\\Program Files\\MiKTeX 2.9\\miktex\\bin\\x64\\latex",
    DvipsExecutable ->    "C:\\Program Files\\MiKTeX 2.9\\miktex\\bin\\x64\\dvips"]; 
If[MathPSfragConfigurationTest[] === True, okPrint["Passed"], errorPrint["Failed"]];

I also tried with .exe at the ends of the names, and with .exe at just the end of the gswin64c one (as in the example in that same file -- not really sure why their example does that). When I do this, now it won't even find latex! The only thing I can think of is maybe the folders have admin-only privileges or something weird?

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  • $\begingroup$ Could you link to the documentation of mathpsfrag or MathPSfragConfigurationTest? I can't find it in the built-in documentation. Are you using some kind of external party package? $\endgroup$
    – Sjoerd C. de Vries
    Commented Mar 29, 2015 at 9:14
  • $\begingroup$ I guess that would have been helpful. =P wwwth.mpp.mpg.de/members/jgrosse/mathpsfrag/files/manual.pdf specifically sections 3.2 and 5.4 $\endgroup$
    – Hanmyo
    Commented Mar 29, 2015 at 9:30
  • $\begingroup$ Also the files are just from their main site: wwwth.mpp.mpg.de/members/jgrosse/mathpsfrag MathPSfrag 2 (zip) under the Download section $\endgroup$
    – Hanmyo
    Commented Mar 29, 2015 at 9:32
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    $\begingroup$ You might be interested in MaTeX which seems to be able to do similar things, but looks simpler. $\endgroup$
    – Sjoerd C. de Vries
    Commented Mar 29, 2015 at 11:52
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    $\begingroup$ I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it deals with the installation process for a third-party package. $\endgroup$
    – MarcoB
    Commented Mar 12, 2016 at 4:23

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In order to use MathPSFrag on Windows system the file paths should be in correct "full path" form (explicit extra quoting with "\"fullpath\"" worked for me):

SetOptions[UnPSfrag, 
"LaTeXExecutable" -> "\"c:\\Latex\\MikTexPortable\\miktex\\bin\\latex.exe\"", 
"DvipsExecutable" -> "\"c:\\Latex\\MikTexPortable\\miktex\\bin\\dvips.exe\"", 
"GhostscriptExecutable" -> "\"c:\\Latex\\GsViewPortable\\gs8.64\\bin\\gswin32c.exe\""]
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