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> -----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:
test.ps
Description: PostScript document
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