Peter Burchard wrote: > Hello, helpful people! I will give it a shot but I don't know how helpful I will be for your ghostscript question. :-)
> For more than a year, I've been unable to download PDF's because this > started coming up on my screen when I tried: > > Ghostscript is not found on your system, please download it at > http://www.ghostscript.com > > So I've gone to ghostscript and tried to download Ghostscript 9.15 for > Windows (64 bit) I take it by this that you are running MS-Windows? You might only here crickets chirping in response here because most of us don't run Microsoft. Most of us here on the help gnu list are running GNU and therefore don't know much about Microsoft. Therefore you might have better luck asking about MS-Windows in a MS centric place such as on the Cygwin mailing lists or the Mingw mailing lists. At least they are running MS and might know something. In any case when I download PDFs the program I like the best to view them is 'xpdf'. However xpdf has had a trouble history of support. Other people like 'evince'. I have noticed recently that chromium now supports PDF viewing natively in the browser. There are choices and so far none are perfect. > After trying to allow the unknown program to make changes to my computer, I > get: > > Installer integrity check has failed. Common causes include incomplete > download and damaged media. Contact the installer's author to obtain a new > copy. Since you are using http://www.ghostscript.com/ then is there a reason you are asking here about problems with it instead of on the mailing lists for the www.ghostscript.com project? http://ghostscript.com/mailman/listinfo/ According to the http://www.ghostscript.com/ page and links from there the http://ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gs-devel mailing list is the right place to write for discussion about the software there. > Then I notice at the top of the Ghostscript downloads page: > > For personal use, use without redistribution, and use with no technical > support the GNU Affero Public License (AGPL) > <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html> download is your choice. > > There, I see a lot of reading to do, but nowhere to click to download > anything. > > How do I make that Ghostscript message go away, so my computer will allow me > to read PDF's? For a long time I've been going to my wife's login to see it, > because I can look at and download PDF's there. But if I try to copy the > file to a flash drive and put it into my login and open it, I can't. Same > problem. I know nothing about the www.ghostscript.com project. Please write to the [email protected] mailing list and ask there. I do see the GNU project ghostscript at: http://www.gnu.org/software/ghostscript/ I am unfamiliar with either and have no idea the history behind those two projects. I don't know if they are the same, different, forked or joined. Maybe someone else will know something. I assume it is a project fork of some sort. I realize it is confusing to people but with free(dom) software everyone is free to fork a project. Generally that means that if there are problems with one of the forks the right place to go for help is to that fork. Otherwise it is like taking a Chevy to a Ford dealer or the reverse. Bob
