GhostScript problem

tho...@ifa.hawaii.edu

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Mar 22, 2010, 8:04:58 AM3/22/10

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I installed gsview 4.9 and ghostscript 8.64 on my home computer, but
no matter which PostScript or PDF file I try to open, it complains
about no such file, even though the file is shown in the open dialog.
Below is a copy of the message box. What is wrong?

GSview 4.9 2007-11-18
GPL Ghostscript 8.64 (2009-02-03)
Copyright (C) 2009 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
While reading gs_res.ps:
Error: /rangecheck in --getinterval--
Operand stack:
(gs_res.ps) (D:\\VIEW\\GHOST\\gs8.64\\Resource) () 0 1
Execution stack:
%interp_exit --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --
nostringval-- %array_continue --nostringval-- --nostringval--
--nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --
nostringval-- --nostringval-- %array_continue --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
--dict:773/1123(G)-- --dict:62/200(L)-- --dict:773/1123(G)--
--dict:165/251(G)-- --dict:773/1123(G)-- --dict:23/40(ro)(G)--
Last OS error: No such file or directory
Current file position is 11413
gsapi_init_with_args returns -100
GPL Ghostscript 8.64 (2009-02-03)
Copyright (C) 2009 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
While reading gs_res.ps:
Error: /rangecheck in --getinterval--
Operand stack:
(gs_res.ps) (D:\\VIEW\\GHOST\\gs8.64\\Resource) () 0 1
Execution stack:
%interp_exit --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --
nostringval-- %array_continue --nostringval-- --nostringval--
--nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --
nostringval-- --nostringval-- %array_continue --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
--dict:773/1123(G)-- --dict:62/200(L)-- --dict:773/1123(G)--
--dict:165/251(G)-- --dict:773/1123(G)-- --dict:23/40(ro)(G)--
Last OS error: No such file or directory
Current file position is 11413
gsapi_init_with_args returns -100

Jonathan de Boyne Pollard

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Mar 27, 2010, 2:27:51 AM3/27/10

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>
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> (gs_res.ps) (D:\\VIEW\\GHOST\\gs8.64\\Resource)
>

Here's a guess: Do this file and directory exist?

Mike Luther

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Mar 27, 2010, 1:13:44 PM3/27/10

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Solution ..

Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:
>>
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>> (gs_res.ps) (D:\\VIEW\\GHOST\\gs8.64\\Resource)
>>
> Here's a guess: Do this file and directory exist?
>

In the 'default' installation of this to at least an installation to a
different drive directory other than C:\gs, you will find that to get the thing
to work, simply do this. Go into the advanced configuration option in the
menu. Where you get to see the configuration paths, you have to remove the
above 'resource' path! Shut down the application. Re-open it. Poof, the
whole thing is working!

The working line of text is like the following:

> d:\GS\gs8.64\lib;d:\GS\fonts;c:\psfonts

I have had to do this for every new installation and upgrade in every box I've
worked with ever since I started working with this utility. The text as in the
above for the 'gs8.64' you see does properly get updated to 'gs6.70' or in the
current release as 'gs8.71' now. But that resource directory is, in every case
I have ever seen, a corruption in the current way the .WPI installation works
no matter how I choose to go forward with it. Brand new, update, doesn't make
any difference!

I've posted this to Paul Smedley. But as far as I can see, the current and
still released gsv49os2 utility has this issue in it. If I am wrong, please
someone here teach me the right path to salvation! ;)

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--> Sleep well; OS2's still awake! ;)

Mike Luther

tho...@antispam.ham

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Mar 27, 2010, 10:23:56 PM3/27/10

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Jonathan de Boyne Pollard writes:

> (gs_res.ps) (D:\\VIEW\\GHOST\\gs8.64\\Resource)
>
> Here's a guess: Do this file and directory exist?

The file does exist, and the directory does exist, but the
file is located in D:\VIEW\GHOST\gs8.64\Resource\Init.

Andreas Schnellbacher

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Mar 27, 2010, 11:01:55 PM3/27/10

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My gsview configuration is:

Ghostscript-DLL:
F:\GS\gs8.70\bin\gsdll2.dll

Ghostscript-Suchpfad:
F:\GS\gs8.70\init;F:\GS\gs8.70\lib;F:\GS\gs8.70\Resource\font;
F:\GS\fonts

Ghostscript-Optionen:
-dNOPLATFONTS -sFONTPATH="d:\psfonts"

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Andreas Schnellbacher