RE: Update Ghostscript on PASE

I'll give that a try.


-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan Dietz [mailto:bdietz400@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2014 4:09 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Update Ghostscript on PASE

Maybe using the following from the YIPS site will help It is an updated way to get aix biraries into the server http://wsip-174-79-32-155.ph.ph.cox.net/wiki/index.php/PASE/OpenSourceBinaries


using the site PERZL I see the following versions(not sure which you are having problems with).

wwwperzl.sh aix61 list ghostscript

ghostscript-8.70-1.aix5.1.ppc.deps
ghostscript-9.06-1.aix5.1.ppc.deps
ghostscript-9.06-2.aix5.1.ppc.deps
ghostscript-cups-9.06-1.aix5.1.ppc.deps
ghostscript-devel-9.06-1.aix5.1.ppc.deps
ghostscript-devel-9.06-2.aix5.1.ppc.deps
ghostscript-doc-8.70-1.aix5.1.ppc.deps
ghostscript-doc-9.06-1.aix5.1.ppc.deps
ghostscript-doc-9.06-2.aix5.1.ppc.deps
ghostscript-fonts-8.11-1.aix5.1.noarch.deps

Scott Klement wrote on 11/5/2014 4:22 PM:

How did you install Ghostscript in the first place? If you used a
tool like RPM, then you can use it's uninstall/install options to do
the upgrade.

If you simply got a precompiled copy of Ghostscript and "restored" it
to the IFS directories, you'd want to delete those, and restore a
newer version in it's place.

Not sure if that'll help you or not... Personally, I've always found
that Adobe Reader handles PDF much better than Ghostscript.
Unfortunately, Adobe Reader is hard to drive from a program (vs being
user-driven) and as far as I know, nobody has yet gotten it to work on
IBM i. Too bad.

On 11/5/2014 9:41 AM, Justin Taylor wrote:

I installed the pdf2ps2outq utility off the youngiprofessionals.com
website. It works for some PDF files but not the ones I really need
to print. Those PDF files are generated using a 3rd party tool.
Their tech support doesn't really have any idea, but they suggested I
update Ghostscript. Anyone know how to do that?