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[AlastairOz]

I have been trying to get this to work, the PDF solution here:

faq184-2143

My ps file are created, but I get an error message when
ps2pdf.prg tries to open ghost script.

This is it hangs up:

RetCode = CreateProcess(0, File2Run, 0, 0, 1, ;
NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS , 0, 0, @lcStartupInfo, @process_info)

* Unable to run, exit now.
If RetCode = 0
=Messagebox("Error occurred. Error code: ", GetLastError())
Return
Endif

GS fails to start, so I get the message box error. I don't get
an error code though.

 

[Dan Freeman]

What version of .... well ... everything?

Do you have an installation issue because you didn't "Run as Admin" during install? Do you have an issue running a 32-bit driver in 64-bit Windows?

You haven't given anyone enough information to guess.

 

[AlastairOz]

Hi Dan,
I have Windows XP SP3 installed.
Ghost Script was installed with admin rights.
Ghost script works no problem outside of VFP with a third
party PDF tool.

I have downloaded and tried XFRX.
This works OK. Probably use that, thanks.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Alastair,

XFRX is a good choice. I have used it in several apps to create PDFs. But note that it only works with VFP reports - it's not a general-purpose PDF creation tool.

Mike

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[Olaf Doschke]

There are many other solutions you can use for free not depending on Postscript/Ghostscript as a temporary format. Unless you don't have any Postscript processing in the intermediate postscript generated I think of postscript as an overhead you don't need at all.

Bullzip PDF, PDFCreator, CutePDF, whatever. Installs as a printer and creates a pdf file instead of printing. Therefore integrates into any application able to print without any changes.

Bye, Olaf.