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Re: ghostscript?
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: sven geier <sgeier at caltech dot edu>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com, cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:25:26 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: ghostscript?
- References: <loom.20040902T082303-587@post.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, sven geier wrote:
> This may be a stupid-newbie-mistake or something, but I installed
> ghostscript and gv and when I type at the prompt
>
> % gv /path/to/some/ps/document
>
> gv comes up fine, then gives me an error alert-box that
> says "Unknown device: x11"
>
> Indeed, x11 does not seem to be one of the devices known to gs:
>
> %gs
> [snip]
>
> so how is gv supposed to work? I can't be the first one to note this and I'm
> sure there's something incredibly simple I have to do here somewhere but...
>
> [scratches head]
First off, questions regarding Cygwin and X11 should go to the
cygwin-xfree list. Please move further discussions onto that list. I'm
directing this reply there as well, and setting Reply-To: appropriately.
Secondly, this is a common problem. Simply install the "ghostscript-x11"
package.
Igor
P.S. CGF: should we create a "cygwin-x" alias for the cygwin-xfree list,
now that cygwin is using X.Org instead of XFree86?
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