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Subject: RE: Unable to convert postscript to usable form, using either ps2pdf  or gs
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 08:45:04 -0700
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf
> Of Matthias Andree
> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 12:40 AM
> To: David Karr; cygwin AT cygwin DOT 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 <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).

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.


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