[Bug-gswin] Tried opening a file in GSView for Windows

[Russell Lang]

Daniel,

AFPL Ghostscript added some security fixes, so GSview 4.0 
does not work with it unless you disable "Options | Safer".
Please download and install GSview 4.3 which does work.

Russell

To:             	bug-gswin@ghostscript.com
From:           	"Daniel Adams" <danpadams@infomagic.net>
Subject:        	[Bug-gswin] Tried opening a file in GSView 
for Windows
Date sent:      	Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:31:45 -0700

> I have used GhostScript and GSView32 for a long while now and had an idea to
> check to see if it could handle pdf files. Since it did, I figured I would
> update it to the latest version, since it couldn't handle some of the newer
> pdf files. When I tried opening a pdf file with GSView32, it gave me an
> error no matter which pdf file I tried. I also tried opening a ps file from
> the http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ website. Unfortunately that doesn't work
> either. Can anyone help? Any help would be appreciated. The reason why I am
> trying GhostScript for the pdf files, is because for a while I have troubles
> with Adobe Acrobat on my computer.
> 
> The log information that was generated when I attempted to open the pdf file
> was:
> 
> AFPL Ghostscript 7.04 (2002-01-31)
> Copyright (C) 2001 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
> Unrecoverable error: invalidaccess in .setdevice
> Operand stack:
>     --nostringval--  --nostringval--  --nostringval--  --nostringval--  --no
> stringval--  --nostringval--  --nostringval--  --nostringval--
> Failed to open device or install ViewerPreProcess hook: returns -7
> 
> The versions that I downloaded and installed were AFPL GhostScript 7.04, and
> GSView32 4.0
> 
> Daniel Adams
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Russell Lang                   gsview@ghostgum.com.au
Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd      http://www.ghostgum.com.au/