I have the latest GPL Ghostscript v9.05 and I am running it on Win 32 bit systems. On my XP machine, both commands
ps2pdf -v -
and
rungs -v (used internally by TeXLive)
report of Ghostscript 9.05 being available as follows:
GPL Ghostscript 9.05 (2012-02-08)
Copyright (C) 2010 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
On another Win 7 computer, the command
ps2pdf -v -
at the command line is not recognised as being a valid ps2pdfsyntax but rungs -v works fine.
I have read on the internet about setting temporary directories for Ghostscript here:
http://schlingel.bplaced.net/?p=54
and it says basically to edit the gssetgs.bat file in the lib folder of Ghostscript and add the lines:
set path=%ProgramFiles%\gs\gs9.02\lib;%ProgramFiles%\gs\gs9.02\bin;%windir%\SysWOW64
set TMP=%YOUR_TEMP%
set TEMP=%TMP%
This needs to be modified appropriately by replacing 9.02 with 9.05 in my case. Now on Win 7, how should the last two lines regarding the temporary folder be? Can I have for Set TMP as follows:
set TMP=%"C:\Users\hihi\AppData\Local\Temp"%
Is it the right syntax?
I have also put the tmp and temp variables in my Environment variables.
Update
A. Using ps2pdf, here is how I convert a PS to a PDF file on my Win 7 machine and I get an error:
C:\work\misc>ps2pdf -dNOSAFER -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -r720 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.5 -dUseFlateCompression=true -dMaxSubsetPct=100 -dSubsetFonts=true -dEmbedAllFonts=true -dEPSCrop "%1.ps" "%1.pdf"
Unknown device:
Unrecoverable error: undefined in .uninstallpagedevice
Operand stack:
defaultdevice
Note: the above command works fine on my Win XP machine!
B. Using gswin32c here is how I convert a PS to a PDF file on my Win 7 machine and this works:
C:\work\misc>gswin32c.exe -o "%1.pdf" -dNOSAFER -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -r720 dCompatibilityLevel=1.5 -dUseFlateCompression=true -dMaxSubsetPct=100 -dSubsetFonts=true -dEmbedAllFonts=true -dNumRenderingThreads=2 -c "60000000 setvmthreshold" -f -dEPSCrop "%1.ps"
GPL Ghostscript 9.05 (2012-02-08)
Copyright (C) 2010 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Loading NimbusSanL-Regu font from %rom%Resource/Font/NimbusSanL-Regu... 2837152
1454727 4413848 3026018 1 done.
Loading Dingbats font from %rom%Resource/Font/Dingbats... 2837152 1510862 457461
6 3180865 1 done.
Loading NimbusSanL-Bold font from %rom%Resource/Font/NimbusSanL-Bold... 2857248
1553499 4655000 3251960 1 done.
Note: the above command also works fine on my Win XP machine
To summarise: I have problem with ps2pdf on my Win 7 machine.
New (May 09, 2012)
This is what I get when I rem the last two lines as Ken suggested:
C:\work\misc>ps2pdf -dNOSAFER -r720 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.5 -dUseFlateCompression=true -dMaxSubsetPct=100 -dSubsetFonts=true -dEmbedAllFonts=true -dEPSCrop "%1.ps" "%1.pdf"
Unrecoverable error: typecheck in .putdeviceprops
avoiding clean up
The temp folder has those temporary files you mentioned.
The contents of _.at:
-dCompatibilityLevel#1.4
-dNOSAFER
-r720
-dCompatibilityLevel
The contents of _.at2:
-q -P- -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE#pdfwrite
-sOutputFile#-dUseFlateCompression
-dCompatibilityLevel#1.4
-dNOSAFER
-r720
-dCompatibilityLevel
-c .setpdfwrite -f1.5
Update May 11
Note: This is working fine now on my win 7 machine
C:\work\misc>ps2pdf -dNOSAFER -r720 -dCompatibilityLevel#1.5 -dUseFlateCompression#true -dMaxSubsetPct#100 -dSubsetFonts#true -dEmbedAllFonts#true -dEPSCrop "defense.ps" "defense.pdf"
avoiding clean up
The contents of _.at:
-dCompatibilityLevel#1.4
-dNOSAFER
-r720
-dCompatibilityLevel#1.5
-dUseFlateCompression#true
-dMaxSubsetPct#100
-dSubsetFonts#true
-dEmbedAllFonts#true
-dEPSCrop
The contents of _.at2:
-q -P- -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE#pdfwrite
-sOutputFile#"defense.pdf"
-dCompatibilityLevel#1.4
-dNOSAFER
-r720
-dCompatibilityLevel#1.5
-dUseFlateCompression#true
-dMaxSubsetPct#100
-dSubsetFonts#true
-dEmbedAllFonts#true
-dEPSCrop
-c .setpdfwrite -f"defense.ps"
Thanks.
Far more likely than a temporary file problem is permissions on the directory where you are trying to write the destination file. The error message you quote occurs long before any temporary files are used, but is a very common error if you try to write to a directory which does not exist, or which the process has no write permission for.
First thing to do is post the actual gswin32 command line you are using.
The syntax you are querying is incorrect. %value% is a Windows scripting operation which says ‘replace the stuff between the % signs by the named value’. So if I declare ‘set VAL=c:/temp’ Then I can say ‘set NEWVAL=%VAL%/New’ which will make NEWVAL ‘c:/temp/new’. You can find more about windows scripting in the Windows help, or by a quick Google.
Given that ‘ps2pdf’ (which is a Windows script) can’t be found on your Windows 7 machine (at least I assume that’s what you mean by ‘is not recognised as being a valid ps2pdf command’) it does seem like you need to add the Ghostscript paths to your environment. Simply altering gssetgs.bat on its own will do nothing, you need to ensure that this script file is called from your autoexec.bat script, so that the additional environment settings are applied.
If you aren’t sure what autoexec.bat is, or how to modify it, then again Google should help you pretty quickly.
Did you actually install Ghostscript, or simply copy it ?
Given that Ghostscript works correctly, the problem must be in the shell script ‘ps2pdf’, or more accurately some change in Windows 7 is causing the old script not to work.
This script is (unfortunately) rather more complex than I would like (I didn’t write it). it actually uses about three different scripts to do the work. You really need to find out what is being sent to GS.
Probably the simplest way to do this is to edit ‘ps2pdfxx.bat’. At the :end label you’ll see ‘rem Clean up’ followed by two lines beginning ‘if exist’. Put rem in front of those two. Add a line which says ‘echo avoiding clean up’ The end of the file should look like this:
:end
rem Clean up.
rem if exist “%TEMP%_.at” erase “%TEMP%_.at”
rem if exist “%TEMP%_.at”2 erase “%TEMP%_.at”2
echo avoiding clean up
Now run your command line (by the way you really don’t need to put -sDEVICE= when using ps2pdf…..)
In your TEMP directory you should have files called _.at and possibly _.at2 which will contain the actual commands being sent to GS.
OK the file _.at is copied into the file .at2, and then.at2 is used as the list of arguments to Ghostscript. Commenting up the file you got:
—This line added by the batch file ps2pdfxx.bat
-q -P- -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE#pdfwrite
—These lines come from _.at
-sOutputFile#-dUseFlateCompression
-dCompatibilityLevel#1.4
-dNOSAFER
-r720
-dCompatibilityLevel
–This line added by the batch file ps2pdfxx.bat
-c .setpdfwrite -f1.5
There are a number of problems with this:
-sOutputFile#-dUseFlateCompression
This in effect sets the output file to ‘-dUseFlateCompression’
-c .setpdfwrite -f1.5
I’m not completely sure what this will do. Either it will handle the -f properly and terminate the PostScript input, or it will ignore it as an unrecognised switch (probably the latter). The ‘1.5’ ought to be the input filename, without that Ghostscript doesn’t know which file to use….. Even if it did, it will try to write the output to a bogus filename.
To be honest I would suggest that, if you want to set all these switches, you simply invoke Ghostscript directly rather than trying to use the script. In fact I’d recommend that anyway, every time I look at these scripts I shudder more.
Almost everything that the ps2pdf script is doing is being overridden by your command line, or is not required in the first place.