Re: Ghostscript

29.7.2011 23:40, Thompson,Paul kirjoitti:
> Please google ghostscript. I just downloaded and installed both ghostscript and gsview. Takes just a couple min.


gsview does not install nor work without ghostscript. On the 
other hand, a proper MiKTeX installation contains a working 
ghostscript, and external installation should be 
superfluous, if not harmful.

Olli

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Barr [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 3:14 PM
> To: Miktex users group
> Subject: [MiKTeX] Ghostscript
>
> I have a relatively new Win 7 computer that is running Miktex 2.8, via a
> full installation from tex-live.  In the directory miktex 2.8 directory,
> there is directory called ghostscript that contains nothing executable,
> nor does there appear anything in the bin directory.  After searchin the
> web, I got what purported to be a ps2pdf file conversion program, but it
> fails completely, giving me message about unable to view pdf file.  From
> various things, I inferred that it was looking for the Adobe reader, but I
> got rid of the Adobe reader and started using sumatrapdf since the Adobe
> reader caused my computer to hang up.  Then I got ghostview, which I had
> used before and didn't much care for, but I would not use it very often.
> Only now someone sent me a ps file that I would like to see.  When I ran
> gsview, it said I needed ghostscript.  Is there no simple file that will
> just let me look at a ps file or else convert it to pdf?
>
> I have just killed two very frustrating hours on this.
>
> Michael Barr
>
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