[mac-gs] Error Report: DoPrint failed (-43)

[Ben Schmidt]

Hi, Karen.

Printing in MacGSView has been broken for quite some time on Classic Mac OS,
so I suppose it will still be broken if you run it in the Classic
Environment on OS X. Not sure exactly how it's broken, but I think it's
detailed under the known bugs in the documentation or some such thing.

It doesn't seem like anyone is actively maintaining the program now, and I
think the mac-gs mailing list is well and truly dead. However, there is a
Mac OS X version of the program. I think Berndt (the author of the program)
was working on carbonising it but never managed to complete it. However, the
partially complete version (and I believe its bugs are mainly, if not
totally, aesthetic) is available at:

<ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/macgsview/test/MacGSView%20for%2
0Mac%20OS%20X%202.0b3.sit>

I am also working on carbonising the program (a separate effort to the
program above, since I was unable to get hold of Berndt or the program
sources for that version above) and on compiling carbonised versions more
recent versions of the Ghostscript library. One day, when I have some solid
success (and I'm very nearly there), I may get in touch with the maintainers
of the Ghostscript website and make my efforts more widely available. At any
rate, though, if you would be interested in obtaining my version when it is
complete, feel free to write back and ask me for it.

Regards,

Ben.



> Hello,
> 
> I just installed MacGSView a few moments ago, and opened a document I
> had already saved to my hard drive. Right after opening it, I scrolled
> to the end of the document, and then selected File, Print. Instead of
> the document spooling, I got the error message.
> 
> Not sure what caused it; I rarely run Classic environment, that may be
> part of it. I highly recommend you write a Mac OS X version of your
> program.
> 
> regards,
> Karen