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Offline enoch

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open a pdf with gsview?
« on: March 11, 2011, 11:54:15 PM »
installed gsview asking for info on how to open a pdf with it.

Offline Juanito

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Re: open a pdf with gsview?
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2011, 12:26:16 AM »
Are you saying that there's some kind of error when you try to use gsview?

If not, just click on the icon and then file/open (or similar).

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Re: open a pdf with gsview?
« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2011, 07:35:33 PM »
yes Click File, Open, select a pdf, ok, and get error dialogs
GSview -4.9 2007-11-18
play_sound: not implemented
debug=0
GPL Ghostscript 8.71 Can't find initialization file gs_init.ps
gsapi_init_with_args returns -100

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Re: open a pdf with gsview?
« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2011, 08:18:54 AM »
Ah - in this case you need the ghostscript_common extension, which contains gs_init.ps

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Re: open a pdf with gsview?
« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2011, 11:21:54 AM »
status downloader reports its already installed.

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Re: open a pdf with gsview?
« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2012, 03:31:06 PM »
Yes, i have the same problem :P