Re: Help with saveas and fltk

[Ben Abbott]

On Jun 15, 2013, at 3:44 AM, Rick M. Cox wrote:

>  From: Benjamin Abbott [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 3:36 AM
> To: Nicholas Jankowski
> Cc: Rick M. Cox; help-octave Octave
> Subject: Re: Help with saveas and fltk
>  
>> On Jun 14, 2013, at 6:25 PM, Nicholas Jankowski <address@hidden> wrote:
>>  
>>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Jun 13, 2013, at 10:25 PM, "Rick M. Cox" <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>  From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Nicholas 
>>>> Jankowski
>>>> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 6:57 PM
>>>> To: Rick M. Cox
>>>> Cc: Ben Abbott; help-octave Octave
>>>> Subject: Re: Help with saveas and fltk
>>>>  
>>>>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Rick M. Cox <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>  
>>>>>> From: Ben Abbott [mailto:address@hidden 
>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 5:58 PM
>>>>>> To: Rick M. Cox
>>>>>> Cc: 'Nicholas Jankowski'; 'help-octave Octave'
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Subject: Re: Help with saveas and fltk
>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> On Jun 13, 2013, at 03:12 PM, "Rick M. Cox" <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>> Nick and Ben:
>>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>> I hope some of this helps:
>>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>> 1.      I haven’t seen the “D:\Program” error in a long time.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 2.      I installed Octave 3.7.2+ and Ghostscript v9.07 in paths with 
>>>>>>>> no white spaces.  Even though I don’t use it anymore, I never deleted 
>>>>>>>> Octave 3.6.4.  It still resides in a path with white spaces.  I 
>>>>>>>> certainly could delete it if you thought it was a problem.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 3.      I thought I correctly added Ghostscript to the system 
>>>>>>>> path/environment variables per the setup instructions.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 4.      When I type system (“gswin32c.exe”) I get a Ghostscript 9.07 
>>>>>>>> header.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>> I’m cheered that my routines work on your systems.  I’d like it to 
>>>>>>>> work on mine.  J
>>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>> Thanks again,
>>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>> Rick 
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> I'm not sure it will help resolve the problem, but please type 
>>>>>>> EXEC_PATH at Octave's prompt and copy-n-paste the text it returns into 
>>>>>>> you reply.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Also tell us if you've installed more than one version of Ghostscript 
>>>>>>> and where they are.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>  Ben
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Ben:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I am sorry but I don’t know how to copy something from the Octave 3.7.2+ 
>>>>>> Command Window.  I can see the results of the EXEC_PATH command but I 
>>>>>> can’t copy them.  I have looked for help on the web but haven’t found 
>>>>>> the right thing yet.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> As to your second question there is only one copy of Ghostscript 
>>>>>> installed on my machine.  When I tried to install it to a path with no 
>>>>>> white spaces, I had to uninstall the previous version first.  The path 
>>>>>> to Ghostscript on my machine is:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> D:\Ghostscript\gs9.07
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I added this path to the Environment Variables on my system.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Rick
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Rick, also check to see if there's one in the Octave folder. The windows 
>>>>> builds might have them included assuming most windows users wouldn't know 
>>>>> what ghostscript is. It would be located here:
>>>>> 
>>>>> for my copy of version 3.6.4, its located at:
>>>>> 
>>>>> C:\Octave\Octave3.6.4_gcc4.6.2\gs
>>>>> 
>>>>> with the main executable as 
>>>>> C:\Octave\Octave3.6.4_gcc4.6.2\gs\bin\gswin32.exe
>>>>  
>>>> Nick,
>>>>  
>>>> Since Rick is running the mingw version of Octave, is there a problem 
>>>> using gswin32.exe instead of the mingw gs.exe?
>>>  
>>> Ben
>>>  
>>> I believe on mine the executable included in octave is gswin32.exe, there 
>>> is no gs.exe
>>> 
>>> and threadhopping to your other question, the MinGW version includes a 
>>> shortcut that starts Octave in what I believe is the msys shell.  It 
>>> doesn't add things to the system path such that runnign commands from the 
>>> dos shell will automatically do anything.
>>  
>> On win7, I have an msys octave-3.6.2 that is able to print using 
>> gswin32.exe.  Which version of windows are you running?
>>  
>> Ben
>  
> Ben:
>  
> I am running Windows XP Pro SP3.  I use Octave 3.7.2+ with the GUI.  I had 
> the same problem though with Octave 3.6.4.
>  
> Rick

Except that the problem appears to be related to WinXP, I have no other insight 
at the moment.  Is anyone else following the discussion running XP?

Ben