[gs-devel] Ghostscript with Vista

[Ken Sharp]

At 10:15 05/03/2008 -0500, Breton Tillinghast wrote:

>Has anyone successfully used Ghostscript with Vista?

Used, built, work with every day :-) Windows Vista business in my case 
though I doubt if there are likely to be any differences on other versions 
as far as Ghostscript is concerned.


>  I know that GS
>still uses adobe 5

*Adobe* 5 ? Perhaps you mean Visual C version 5 (which seems unlikely, 
that's ancient) ?

Or Acrobat 5 (PDF 1.4), though I can't see the relevance since Ghostscript 
doesn't 'use' any Adobe products that I'm aware of.


>, which uses kernel-mode access.

Don't know of any Adobe product which 'uses' kernel mode, that's device 
driver-only territory, and not all of those.


>  I also heard that
>vista only allows user-mode access for it's print drivers.  Has anyone
>been able to do this, or run into this problem?

I'm not sure what your problem is, you haven't really described one. 
Ghostscript isn't a printer driver, perhaps you mean Redmon the port monitor ?

Maybe if you could describe your problem, and what you are trying to 
achieve, I could offer some suggestions. I can certainly experiment under 
Vista and let you know the result.


                 Ken