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clumpter
clumpter

Reputation: 1958

Call Ghostscript in Windows by its invocation name?

What should I do to be able to call Ghostscript in Windows by its invocation name? I added Ghostscript bin folder to Windows PATH and Path variables but it doesn't work, neither does 'gswin32c.exe' nor 'gswin32c'. Logging out and then logging back in also didn't help. How do I solve this issue? Maybe I'm using the wrong invocation name?

Upvotes: 11

Views: 40656

Answers (3)

Mihail Minkov
Mihail Minkov

Reputation: 2633

In my case the easiest option that actually made it work was renaming the main exe to gs.exe and with the path configured it works like a charm.

Upvotes: 6

Kurt Pfeifle
Kurt Pfeifle

Reputation: 90365

There are several possibilities. To list the two most frequent ones:

  1. c:\full\path\to\gswin32c.exe should always work. For 64bit systems, use c:\full\path\to\gswin64c.exe.
  2. After a fresh installation using a standard windows installer, you may need to reboot before the updated %path% environment variable is used.
  3. Open a cmd window and (assuming your Ghostscript installation ended up in c:\path\to\gs...) then type set path=c:\path\to\gs\gs9.02\bin;%path%. From this same cmd window you can now simply use gswin32c to start Ghostscript (use gswin64c on 64 bit Windows)...

Upvotes: 18

clumpter
clumpter

Reputation: 1958

I've finaly got what i want after rebooting. Weird. Thanks all of you for your help.

Upvotes: 3

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