But I am unable to open PDF files with Ghostscript 9.52 x32 installed, but can with Ghostscript 9.27 which predates the change...
Incompatibility with Ghostscript 9.50 not fixed? [Solved]
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Incompatibility with Ghostscript 9.50 not fixed? [Solved]
The v2.49.2 changelog indicates that a compatibility problem with Ghostscript 9.50 [due to a change in Ghostscript] has been fixed:
But I am unable to open PDF files with Ghostscript 9.52 x32 installed, but can with Ghostscript 9.27 which predates the change...
But I am unable to open PDF files with Ghostscript 9.52 x32 installed, but can with Ghostscript 9.27 which predates the change...
Re: Incompatibility with Ghostscript 9.50 not fixed?
no problem with gs 9.52, could you send me the pdf that you try to load?
Pierre.
Re: Incompatibility with Ghostscript 9.50 not fixed?
Yes, unexpected, but I've rechecked and I am using 2.49.2 with only GS gs9.27 x32 installed and the file opens, it wouldn't open with GS gs9.52 x32 installed...xnview wrote: Thu May 14, 2020 8:10 am no problem with gs 9.52, could you send me the pdf that you try to load?
Re: Incompatibility with Ghostscript 9.50 not fixed?
no problem to load your file with GS 9.52 & 2.49.2, no other GS installed?
Pierre.
Re: Incompatibility with Ghostscript 9.50 not fixed?
In 'Program Files' GS 9.52 x64 ...xnview wrote: Thu May 14, 2020 1:36 pm no problem to load your file with GS 9.52 & 2.49.2, no other GS installed?
Re: Incompatibility with Ghostscript 9.50 not fixed? [Solved]
I don't know much about the registry...
The laptop on which I am testing had a clean Windows 10 install fairly recently, I installed GS 9.52 x64 soon after when I installed XnView MP 0.96, and had hardly been in Windows until yesterday when needed to work with PDFs in XnView Classic, and installed GS 9.52 x32.
Then, as above, I couldn't open PDFs until I uninstalled GS 9.52 x32 and installed GS 9.27 x32 ...
Re: Incompatibility with Ghostscript 9.50 not fixed? [Solved]
I have now tested on another laptop with XnView Classic 2.49.2 and GS 9.52 x32 installed, and PDFs open normally... 
Something unexplained on the first laptop, possibly a corrupted download, or a Windows 10 issue??
Something unexplained on the first laptop, possibly a corrupted download, or a Windows 10 issue??
Re: Incompatibility with Ghostscript 9.50 not fixed? [Solved]
cday wrote: Thu May 14, 2020 4:20 pm I have now tested on another laptop with XnView Classic 2.49.2 and GS 9.52 x32 installed, and PDFs open normally...
Something unexplained on the first laptop, possibly a corrupted download, or a Windows 10 issue??
I can now report following some further tests that XnView Classic 2.49.2 opens PDF files with either GS 9.52 or an earlier version installed...
[GS 9.50 not tested but also presumed to work.]