Lister plugin - PDFView 1.05

[panneer]

Hi,

I've trying to use pdfview V1.05 lister plugin alongwith hand made ghostscript environment (just copied ghostscript files instead of installing them).

I modified "lsplugin.ini" appropriately (exepath & command) as suggested in readme.txt. But when I try to open a pdf on lister, I get dialog window with following error message,

"Ghostscript could not convert document."

Could anyone suggest me what I'm supposed to do or could anyone give me some hint how I can find more details about the error? Is it possible to see that invocation of ghostscript thru pdfview? Is their any log?

Thanks in advance and Have a nice day

with regards,
Panneer

[Hacker]

[mod]Moved the topic to the Plugin forum.

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[Wilhelm M.]

Hi!

I think that Ghostscript needs some registry entries to work properly. E.g. the path to Ghostscripts bin files must be given in the registry.
My registry shows the following entry (exported):

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\AFPL Ghostscript]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\AFPL Ghostscript\8.11]
"GS_DLL"="d:\\tools\\gs\\gs8.11\\bin\\gsdll32.dll"
"GS_LIB"="d:\\tools\\gs\\gs8.11\\lib;d:\\tools\\gs\\fonts;d:\\tools\\gs\\gs8.11\\Resource"

You could try to copy these lines into a reg-file and adapt the pathes to your needs. Please let me know if it worked.

[Clo]

2panneer
Hello !
- I've PDF-View 1.05 installed under Win98 SE.
- GhostScript 8.13 had been installed. Dir. size : 16.5 MB
- In the Registry, I've the equivalent key like Wilhem M. shows above :

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REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\AFPL Ghostscript\8.13]
"GS_DLL"="C:\\gs\\gs8.13\\bin\\gsdll32.dll"
"GS_LIB"="C:\\gs\\gs8.13\\lib;C:\\gs\\fonts;C:\\gs\\gs8.13\\Resource"

- The plugin works correctly (not a wonder, though…)

 Kind regards,
Claude
Clo

[panneer]

Hi All,

Thanks all for your immediate response. Even after adding the registry entries, I get the same problem. But when I invoke the ghostscript from command line it works fine. I mean made a batch calling ghostscript exe (gswin32c.exe) with arguments (that I've in lsplugin.ini "command" value, by replacing %n with proper values). This call successfully converts the pdf file and produces a bmp file.

Do I miss anything else? Please advice me how I can fix this problem?
Also if possible, please tell me whether pdfview plugin creates any error log?

Thanks again

with regards,
Panneer

[fnheiden]

Please post the [pdfview] section of your lsplugin.ini.

Best regards,
~ Florian

[Wilhelm M.]

Well, I have not installed pdfview. Only, your " hand made ghostscript environment" indicated a missing registry entry. (BTW: why didn't you install Ghostscript properly? GS is very well behaving program, that does not mess up your system.)
Now it seems to me that it is a plugin configuration problem. Could you post your lsplugin.ini entry here? Besides, I cannot find any hint of a %n parameter in the pdfview readme.txt, but maybe I looked not closely enough.
Another advice is to write a mail to author Florian Heidenreich, he probably could help you.

[Wilhelm M.]

Well now, Florain was a bit more quickly...

[panneer]

Hi,

Here goes my lsplugin.ini entries,
============================================
[pdfview]
exepath=E:\Progra~1\Ghosts~1\gs8.00\bin
command=-IE:\Progra~1\Ghosts~1\gs8.00\lib;D:\Progra~1\Ghosts~1\fonts -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=bmp256 -r%3 -sOutputFile=%2 -dFirstPage=%4 -dLastPage=%4 "%1"
resolution=144
============================================

My command line trial batch program goes as below,
============================================
E:\Progra~1\Ghosts~1\gs8.00\bin\gswin32c.exe -IE:\Progra~1\Ghosts~1\gs8.00\lib;E:\Progra~1\Ghosts~1\fonts -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=bmp256 -r144 -sOutputFile=out.bmp -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=1 "test.pdf"
============================================
And this works fine and I get out.bmp properly.

Thank you

with regards,
Panneer

[fnheiden]

Please change exepath to

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exepath=E:\Progra~1\Ghosts~1\gs8.00\bin\gswin32c.exe

Best regards,
~ Florian

[panneer]

Hi,

Thanks a lot, it works fine now (after adding the "gswin32c.exe" to "exepath" value).

Thanks to all for your immediate response and support.

Have a nice day

with regards,
Panneer

[peterbbrown]

I installed PDF Creator which has its own copy of GS 8.14 and modified my lsplugin.ini file to read this way, following the guidance of the readme with pdfview, but I keep getting the error "Ghostscript could not convert document". I added the section of "-I" and the exepath lines to the file as I found it, closing TC each time and restarting it, but I still get the error. What am I missing here, please? I also am using the latest PDFView plugin (1.07), which installed itself into the 1.02 folder in the Plugins, so the wincmd.ini file remains the same.

[pdfview]
command=-IC:\PROGRA~1\PDFCRE~1\GS8.14\gs8.14\Lib -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=bmp256 -r%3 -sOutputFile=%2 -dFirstPage=%4 -dLastPage=%4 "%1"
resolution=144
exepath=C:\PROGRA~1\PDFCRE~1\GS8.14\gs8.14\Lib

[sqa_wizard]

At least your exepath entry must include the program (gswin32c.exe) itself.

I don't know where it is located in your case (look at the post of fnheiden and panneer above)

[peterbbrown]

I just discovered where I and the writer of the readme file for this plugin erred: the line for exepath must be first. I moved the line to the top, after unsuccessfully adding the name of the file to the line, and only then did it work right. So this is a working file now:
[pdfview]
exepath=C:\PROGRA~1\PDFCRE~1\GS8.14\gs8.14\Lib\gswin32c.exe
command= -IC:\PROGRA~1\PDFCRE~1\GS8.14\gs8.14\Lib -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=bmp256 -r%3 -sOutputFile=%2 -dFirstPage=%4 -dLastPage=%4 "%1"
resolution=144

If the author of this plugin reads this, please change your readme file to include this information, and also give an example, as I have above, of exactly what you meant by the note:
"You also have to supply the -I<lib-directory> switch to the command string."

[fnheiden]

I don't think that the order of the keys in the ini does matter. The exepath key is on the second position here and everything works fine

Although you don't have to worry about the exepath key if you have Ghostscript installed I'll add an example of it to the readme.

Thanks for your feedback!

Regards,
~ Florian