Re: ps2pdf working in DOS console, but not in MSYS console

Am Tue, 23 Dec 2014 13:38:22 +0100 schrieb Vincent Belaïche:

> Dear all,
> 
> I have MiKTeX 2.9 64bit installed on Windows7.
> 
> When I open a cmd.exe DOS console, and I type
> 
>    ps2pdf --help
> 
> then I get the usual output with exit status 0
> 
> When I open a bash MSYS console (with MSYS 64bit edition), and I type
> the same command, then I get no output at all and exit status is 255.
> 
> So there is something in the MSYS environment preventing ps2pdf to work.
> 
> I checked with MSYS that Ghostscript is in the path (if I type:
> 
>    gswin64c --help
> 
> then I get the normal output), and I also added some export GS
> environment variable pointing at gswin64c.exe, but this does not help.

The ps2pdf from miktex doesn't use gswin

http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/214655/2388

(debugging ps2pdf isn't easy, as the exe call a .bat which calls
other .bat which tries to find a ghostscript... . Make sure that you
don't have other versions around ...)


-- 
Ulrike Fischer 
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/


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