ghostscript installation

[Martin DeMello]

Hi,

I'm developing a program[1] that depends on ghostscript's ps2pdf, and
will therefore require the users to have that installed. What I would
like to know is, how hard is this exactly for the average user? Has
anyone faced this problem before and written a HOWTO I can steal?

In particular, if anyone has had problems getting ghostscript up and
running under windows, I'd love to hear about some of the issues you
faced. (If I end up having to write my own howto, I'll share it here, of
course.)

martin

[1] Scrabble PrettyPrinter - latest release available at
http://zem.novylen.net/ruby

 

[JanC]

Martin DeMello schreef:

I'm developing a program[1] that depends on ghostscript's ps2pdf, and
will therefore require the users to have that installed. What I would
like to know is, how hard is this exactly for the average user? Has
anyone faced this problem before and written a HOWTO I can steal?

In particular, if anyone has had problems getting ghostscript up and
running under windows, I'd love to hear about some of the issues you
faced. (If I end up having to write my own howto, I'll share it here, of
course.)

There is a howto somewhere on the web, I just don't remember exactly where.
Probably it's linked from the GhostScript homepage?

 

[Martin DeMello]

There is a howto somewhere on the web, I just don't remember exactly where.
Probably it's linked from the GhostScript homepage?

There's
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/8.00/Install.htm#Install_Windows
but anecdotal evidence suggested it was a pain for non-technical users
to install. However, I note that there is a self-extracting archive and
that it does add itself properly to the registry, so I'm looking into
scanning the registry and setting up the paths to gswin32 and ps2pdf
myself.

martin

 

[JanC]

Martin DeMello schreef:

However, I note that there is a self-extracting archive and
that it does add itself properly to the registry, so I'm looking into
scanning the registry and setting up the paths to gswin32 and ps2pdf
myself.

Yes, all recent versions do this, but remember that the AFPL (Alladin) &
GPL versions use different registry keys.

 

[Martin DeMello]

Martin DeMello schreef:


Yes, all recent versions do this, but remember that the AFPL (Alladin) &
GPL versions use different registry keys.

Good point!

martin

 

[JanC]

Martin DeMello schreef:

Good point!

I wrote an NSIS installer for a small GhostScript-dependent utility 2 years
ago...