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Problem Installing GSView Windows 7

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David Fanning

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Oct 29, 2009, 7:08:07 PM10/29/09
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Folks,

I'm making a brave attempt to upgrade a Windows XP box
to Windows 7. (And thinking a LOT more about a Mac, I
can tell you!)

My problem at the moment is that I have downloaded
a 64-bit version of GSView (gsv49w64.exe) and I have
downloaded various versions of Ghostscript (gs870w32.exe)
and ghostscript-8.64.tar.bz2), and I have put them in
various likely places. But no matter where I put them,
GSView can't find them.

I suppose I could try downloading the 32-bit version of
GSView, but then I *could* have re-installed Windows XP, too.

Any ideas of where the Ghostscript files should go so that
GSView will recognize them?

Cheers,

David

ThomasW

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Oct 30, 2009, 4:48:18 AM10/30/09
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Hi David,

if I'm understanding you correctly, you did not *install* Ghostscript
yet. The gs870w32.exe file is an installer. I think it also writes a
registry entry that allows GSview to find Ghostscript.

Thomas W.

ken

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Oct 30, 2009, 6:43:04 AM10/30/09
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In article <d324c6dd-2920-4989-91ec-afab068fe42e@
37g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>, x.zu...@web.de says...

Also environment variables, font installation, bunch of stuff.

Note that gs870w32.exe is the installer for a 32-bit version of
Ghostscript, while ghostscript-8.64.tar.bz2 is (a bzipped tarball of)
the souerce code for version 8.64 of Ghostscript, not a 64-bit verson of
Ghostscript 8.70.

You should download (and run ;-) gs870w64.exe for a 64-bit version of
Ghostscript for Windows. Its available here:

http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/GPL/gs870/


Ken

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