GNU bug report logs - #36357
Wrong Ghostscript program name on MS Win

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 16:05:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban <at> gmail.com>
To: 36357 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36357: Wrong Ghostscript program name on MS Win
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 18:04:41 +0200

Variable 'doc-view-ghostscript-program' has value - 'gs' - which is OK
for Unix and VMS, but NOT OK for MS Windows.  It should be 'gswin32c'.
For details look at the table in "How to Use Ghostscript", chapter
"2.1 Help at the command line: gs -h".

Perhaps it should be done as list of choice, like in case of
'tex-dvi-view-command'?

Or as S. Monnier wrote: "(...) the default could simply
(executable-find "gs") and (executable-find "gswin32c") and use
whichever was found (...)".

Also the same table says 'gsos2' for OS/2 systems.


S. U.


In GNU Emacs 26.2 (build 1, i686-w64-mingw32)
 of 2019-04-13 built on CIRROCUMULUS
Repository revision: fd1b34bfba8f3f6298df47c8e10b61530426f749
Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
This bug report was last modified 5 years and 30 days ago.

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