Unable to convert postscript to usable form, using either ps2pdf or gs

[David Karr]

> -----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).



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