This is the mail archive of the
cygwin
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
RE: Unable to convert postscript to usable form, using either ps2pdf or gs
- From: "David Karr" <dkarr at real dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 08:49:23 -0700
- Subject: RE: Unable to convert postscript to usable form, using either ps2pdf or gs
- References: <E38A2467D8EE4066BE57F6B23834FF27@corp.real.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@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/