Re: Ghostscript

Am Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:14:04 -0400 (EDT) schrieb Michael Barr:

> 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.

The ghostscript of miktex is called mgs.exe and you find it in
miktex\bin. But it is not really suited to view ps-files as there is
no GUI. So if you want to view ps-files directly get gsview and an
external ghostscript: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/

There is no need "to search the web" to get a ps2pdf. Such a script
is included in miktex. You need only to run "ps2pdf file.ps" on the
command line. 

As you didn't give any exact information it is impossible to say
what your ps2pdf is doing and why it fails. Perhaps is didn't
generate a pdf at all, or didn't find a pdf-viewer. 

-- 
Ulrike Fischer 


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