X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "David Karr" To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Subject: RE: Unable to convert postscript to usable form, using either ps2pdf or gs Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 08:45:04 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Note-from-DJ: This may be spam > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf > Of Matthias Andree > Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 12:40 AM > To: David Karr; cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Unable to convert postscript to usable form, using either > ps2pdf or gs > > Am 01.06.2009, 23:33 Uhr, schrieb David Karr : > > > I have a generated postscript file (from trueprint) that I need to get > > into a usable form on Windows, so I can view it and print it. I've > > tried both > > "ps2pdf" and "gs", with no success so far. > > > > I first tried using "ps2pdf". This fails with: > > > > --------------- > > % ps2pdf tp.ps tp.pdf > > GPL Ghostscript 8.62: **** Could not open temporary file > > /c/DOCUME~1/User/LOCALS~1/Temp/gs_dwvfJL > > **** Unable to open the initial device, quitting. > > --------------- > > > > It isn't an obvious permissions problem, because I can "touch" that file > > with no problem. > > Confirm - with for instance "type -a ps2pdf" or "which ps2pdf" if you're > really invoking the ps2pdf you believe you're invoking, and if not, fix > your installation and/or the PATH variable (though Windows's dialogue). Confirmed. > > I then tried just "gs tp.ps", and that fails with this: > > > > ------------------ > > % gs tp.ps > > GPL Ghostscript 8.62 (2008-02-29) > > Copyright (C) 2008 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved. > > This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. > > Loading NimbusMonL-Regu font from > > /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n022003l.pfb... 2449904 1067520 4774456 > > 3452340 > ... > > 3456751 > > 1 done. > > GPL Ghostscript 8.62: **** Could not open the file . > > Error: /invalidfileaccess in --showpage-- > > Operand stack: > > 1 true > > Is the output file in use? You cannot overwrite open file because most > (not all) applications lock their input files. A notable exception for PDF > viewers is SumatraPDF. I'm pretty certain it was not, as that was obviously a temporary file that "gs" created without my intervention. However, when I just tried it again, it magically worked. This doesn't really help me, though. I still need ps2pdf to work, so I can make use of the postscript. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/