ghostscript display invalidfileaccess

[Dimitris Menemenlis]

This is to report a problem, a solution, and a request for
update for cygwin distribution.  The current distro of cygwin
comes with GNU Ghostscript 7.05, which does not support
display of postscript and pdf files on X11R6.  One solution
is to upgrade cygwin to use GNU Ghostscript 8.01 (2004-01-30).
The request for update is that a newer version of ghostscript
be included with cygwin distro (is this the right list for this
type of request?).  Follow a description of the problem and a
temporary solution until the cygwin distro is updated.



The error message looks like this:

----snip-----
$ gs triangulation_plan.ps
GNU Ghostscript 7.05 (2002-04-22)
Copyright (C) 2002 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Loading NimbusSanL-Regu font from
/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n019003l.pfb... 1940160 584178 1743104 451209 0
done.
Loading NimbusSanL-ReguItal font from
/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n019023l.pfb... 1980352 634220 1783296 477523 0
done.
Error: /invalidfileaccess in --.outputpage--
Operand stack:
   1   true
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit
.runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2
%stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false
1   %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop
.runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2
%stopped_push   --nostringval--   0   4
%oparray_pop   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostr
ingval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1081/1123(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:69/200(L)--   --dic
t:126/250(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Current file position is 33459
-----snap------



Instructions for updating to newer version of ghostscript:

1. unistall ghostscript using the cygwin.com install program

2. install a newer version of ghostscript

gnughostscript-8.01.tar.gz  obtained from
http://www.gnu.org/software/ghostscript/ghostscript.html
cd ~/software
gunzip gnughostscript-8.01.tar.gz
tar xvf gnughostscript-8.01.tar
\rm gnughostscript-8.01.tar
cd gnughostscript-8.01
./configure
make
make install

3. install fonts

ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz obtained from
ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/AFPL/fonts/
cd ~/software
gunzip ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz
tar xvf ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar
mkdir mkdir /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts
mv fonts/* /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts
\rm -rf ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar fonts