RE: GhostScript ps2pdf

[Nicholas Wourms <nwourms@yahoo.com>]

Hi James,

What does it say when you run "which ps2pdf"?  The only reason I ask is
because I believe the native windows version of ghostscript adds itself to
path in autoexec.bat, so its path might be coming before the cygwin path. 
Just a thought...

Cheers,
Nicholas
--- James Peroulas <james.peroulas@ateliertelecom.se> wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dario Alcocer [mailto:alcocer@helixdigital.com]
> > Sent: den 6 juni 2002 23:06
> > To: James Peroulas
> > Cc: McDougall@agecon.purdue.edu; cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Subject: Re: GS ps2pdf
> >
> >
> > >>>>> "James" == James Peroulas <james.peroulas@ateliertelecom.se>
> writes:
> >
> >     James> Hi all, I noticed on the cygwin mailing list that you guys
> >     James> were having the same problem that I am
> >     James> having. Specifically, "ps2pdf" gives me the error message
> >     James> "**** Unable to open the initial device, quitting."
> >
> > NOTE: I've moved this to the Cygwin mailing list, where this kind of
> > discussion belongs...
> >
> > I've not seen this problem myself, so all I can say is: make sure you
> > are using the latest release.  If you're still having problems, please
> > feel free to e-mail the Cygwin mailing list with more specific
> > information, like maybe a small PS file sample which causes the
> > failure mode you're referring to.
> 
> 
> Hi, I'm the one that made the original post. I'm using the latest
> version of
> cygwin+everything (as of 2002-06-06) on Windows 2000.
> 
> I've attached a simple postscript file and when I use the windows native
> ghostscript and ghostview applications, I can both open this postscript
> file
> and convert it into a valid pdf file.
> 
> 
> When I run ps2pdf in cygwin, however, I get the following:
> DESKTOP62 513: ps2pdf test.ps
> **** Unable to open the initial device, quitting.
> 
> I've also tried calling ghostscript directly, with the same results:
> DESKTOP62 518:
> gs -dSAFER -dCompatibilityLevel=1.2 -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH
> -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -
> sOutputFile=test.pdf -c .setpdfwrite -f test.ps
> **** Unable to open the initial device, quitting.
> 
> 
> The problem persists no matter what postscript file I try to convert.
> However, if I change the device, I can get the conversion to complete:
> DESKTOP62 523:
> gs -dSAFER -dCompatibilityLevel=1.2 -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH
> -sDEVICE=bmpmono -s
> OutputFile=test.bmp -c .setpdfwrite -f test.ps
> %%[ ProductName: GNU Ghostscript ]%%
> %%[Page: 1]%%
> %%[LastPage]%%
> 
> 
> So, the problem appears to be with the pdfwrite output device on
> ghostscript.
> 
> Any ideas?
> James
> 
> P.S. I am not running under "Administrator" privleges under windows
> 2000.
> 

> ATTACHMENT part 2 application/postscript name=test.ps
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