Re: Re: " Error Starting Ghostscript"

> From: LaMark Lee <lemark_lee@...>
> Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 12:20:37 -0700 (PDT)

> Hello, it's me again. I installed the latest
> version of ghostscipt as you recommended, it's
> exactly where you said it would be. Then typed
> specifications in path bar and for some reason it
> won't work. I've restared my computer, double
> checked and retyped exe folder text in path bar
> and it doesn't work. Got any other suggestions.
> Contact me whenever you get a chance. Thank you.

"It won't work" doesn't do much to help people help
you. Exactly which error messages or incorrect
behavior did you see this time, and exactly what did
you do to try to access a postscript file with GIMP
this time, in obsessive detail?

Also, we need to see what you have now in the "PATH"
environmental variable. From the Start Menu, open
"run", run "command", in command run "path", use the
upper left corner mark and copy commands to cut and
paste the answer to "path" and report it back to
this group.

Oops, even though it should, that doesn't work
correctly, even if you use command to run path, and
divert its output to a file

                 path > c:\path.txt

the answer is both abbreviated with "~"s and
truncated to the width of the command widow (grr),
even though it isn't _going_ to the command window:

PATH=c:\PROGRA~1\IMAGEM~1.4-Q;.;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\PROGRA~1\ATITEC~1\ATICON~1;C:\PROGRA~

[Ask me why I rant constantly about the hideous
software quality of Microsoft Windows.]

You'll have to find another way to get the right
answer.

What worked for me is to capture the output of path
within the "vim" editor [http://www.vim.org] into
the file currently being edited, by using the vim
command mode command

                      :r !path

which gives the full unabbreviated contents of the
"PATH" environmental variable:

PATH=c:\program files\imagemagick-6.3.4-q16;.;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI Control Panel;C:\Program Files\Common Files\GTK\2.0\bin;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\

[I'm not about to guess why the same Microsoft
command, "path", gives differently shaped answers
depending on the context from which you run it.]

I'm not showing you either of those to show you what
the Ghostscript entry will look like, I don't have
it in there, in my case, I'm just showing you what
the output that gimpwin-ers need to see looks
like, so that we can be sure you added the right
stuff to the "PATH" environmental variable's paths
to search and order of searching for executables
line.

Also provide a full path listing of the location of
the Ghostscript executable as you installed it
(probably somewhere in "c:\program files\" and the
full path listings of any dynamic link libraries
that it may use, so that we may compare them to what
you put into the path of execution line.

Once that information is back here, others will be
better able to help you than I am, since I don't use
GIMP on postscript files.

xanthian.