RE: Unable to convert postscript to usable form, using either ps2pdf or gs
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf > Of David Karr > Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 2:33 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Unable to convert postscript to usable form, using either ps2pdf > or gs > > I have a generated postscript file (from trueprint) that I need to get > into > a usable form on Windows, so I can view it and print it. I've tried both > "ps2pdf" and "gs", with no success so far. > > I first tried using "ps2pdf". This fails with: > > --- > % ps2pdf tp.ps tp.pdf > GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Could not open temporary file > /c/DOCUME~1/User/LOCALS~1/Temp/gs_dwvfJL > Unable to open the initial device, quitting. > --- I have no idea why this matters, but I got this to work by just setting TMPDIR=/tmp (which makes more sense anyway). -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: Unable to convert postscript to usable form, using either ps2pdf or gs
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf > Of Matthias Andree > Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 12:40 AM > To: David Karr; cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Unable to convert postscript to usable form, using either > ps2pdf or gs > > Am 01.06.2009, 23:33 Uhr, schrieb David Karr : > > > I have a generated postscript file (from trueprint) that I need to get > > into a usable form on Windows, so I can view it and print it. I've > > tried both > > "ps2pdf" and "gs", with no success so far. > > > > I first tried using "ps2pdf". This fails with: > > > > --- > > % ps2pdf tp.ps tp.pdf > > GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Could not open temporary file > > /c/DOCUME~1/User/LOCALS~1/Temp/gs_dwvfJL > > Unable to open the initial device, quitting. > > --- > > > > It isn't an obvious permissions problem, because I can "touch" that file > > with no problem. > > Confirm - with for instance "type -a ps2pdf" or "which ps2pdf" if you're > really invoking the ps2pdf you believe you're invoking, and if not, fix > your installation and/or the PATH variable (though Windows's dialogue). Confirmed. > > I then tried just "gs tp.ps", and that fails with this: > > > > -- > > % gs tp.ps > > GPL Ghostscript 8.62 (2008-02-29) > > Copyright (C) 2008 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved. > > This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. > > Loading NimbusMonL-Regu font from > > /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n022003l.pfb... 2449904 1067520 4774456 > > 3452340 > ... > > 3456751 > > 1 done. > > GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Could not open the file . > > Error: /invalidfileaccess in --showpage-- > > Operand stack: > >1 true > > Is the output file in use? You cannot overwrite open file because most > (not all) applications lock their input files. A notable exception for PDF > viewers is SumatraPDF. I'm pretty certain it was not, as that was obviously a temporary file that "gs" created without my intervention. However, when I just tried it again, it magically worked. This doesn't really help me, though. I still need ps2pdf to work, so I can make use of the postscript. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Unable to convert postscript to usable form, using either ps2pdf or gs
Am 01.06.2009, 23:33 Uhr, schrieb David Karr : I have a generated postscript file (from trueprint) that I need to get into a usable form on Windows, so I can view it and print it. I've tried both "ps2pdf" and "gs", with no success so far. I first tried using "ps2pdf". This fails with: --- % ps2pdf tp.ps tp.pdf GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Could not open temporary file /c/DOCUME~1/User/LOCALS~1/Temp/gs_dwvfJL Unable to open the initial device, quitting. --- It isn't an obvious permissions problem, because I can "touch" that file with no problem. Confirm - with for instance "type -a ps2pdf" or "which ps2pdf" if you're really invoking the ps2pdf you believe you're invoking, and if not, fix your installation and/or the PATH variable (though Windows's dialogue). I've had all sorts of issues when my Cygwin box inadvertently ended up using the notoriously-outdated ps2pdf that got installed by MATLAB and ended up earlier in the $PATH... I then tried just "gs tp.ps", and that fails with this: -- % gs tp.ps GPL Ghostscript 8.62 (2008-02-29) Copyright (C) 2008 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. Loading NimbusMonL-Regu font from /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n022003l.pfb... 2449904 1067520 4774456 3452340 ... 3456751 1 done. GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Could not open the file . Error: /invalidfileaccess in --showpage-- Operand stack: 1 true Is the output file in use? You cannot overwrite open file because most (not all) applications lock their input files. A notable exception for PDF viewers is SumatraPDF. -- Matthias Andree -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
