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Subject: Re: Unable to convert postscript to usable form, using either ps2pdf  or gs
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Am 01.06.2009, 23:33 Uhr, schrieb David Karr <dkarr AT real DOT com>:

> 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).

I've had all sorts of issues when my Cygwin box inadvertently ended up  
using the notoriously-outdated ps2pdf that got installed by MATLAB and  
ended up earlier in the $PATH...

> 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.

-- 
Matthias Andree

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