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Re: using ghostscript to convert ps or eps to pdf/png/jpg???

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In article <48aaae85-175f-473e-9301-bb9d6dc4c59d@googlegroups.com>, 
daviddschool@gmail.com says...
> 
> Question(s):
> I am trying to get a turtle graphic window to save as a jpg.  Presently I can get it to save as a .ps or .eps file.  
> 
>     can=turtle.getscreen().getcanvas()
>     can.postscript(file="test1.eps")
> 
> From here,  I was hoping to use Ghostscript to convert the file to jpg/png/pdf.
> 
> Using the ghostscript documentation, it looks like this would work: (https://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.22/Use.htm#Invoking)
> 
>     ps2pdf file.ps
> 
> Here is my dilemma.  I cannot install ghostscript to my boot drive.  I am on a network so this prevents me.  I do have a drive I can install to, but I don't know if that will work with ghostscript and python.  Any ideas?
> 
> 
> GHOSTSCRIPT : I am not sure how ghostscript works with python (or otherwise).  I tried to log into the IRC chat on the ghostscript site, but that doesn't seem active for non-paying customers. 

To answer this question (for the third time in the third different 
forum): Ghostscript doesn't need to be 'installed' its perfectly capable 
of running from anywhere. Did you try this ? If so what problems did you 
experience ? If not, why not ?

Note that 'ps2pdf' isn't 'Ghostscript', its just a script (bash or 
windows command shell) which runs Ghostscript. If you want to use the 
script then you're going to have to ensure that things like the $PATH 
environment variable are correct.

Because you haven't mentioned the operating system you are using in any 
of the questions you asked, nor explained what difficulty you are having 
with running Ghostscript, detailed answers are not possible. Ghostscript 
is a 'mature' product with many, many options both at run-time and 
compile-time and the various Linux distributions vary in how they build 
and deliver Ghostscript. So its entirely possible that a naive 'copy 
stuff' approach doesn't work, but without more to go on, who knows.

The #ghostscript IRC channel is *intended* for open source users, we 
don't expet our commercial customers to use it, though if they want to 
they are welcome to. The problem is that you are logging in at a time 
when the developers are offline. We're in the US and Europe and so 
there's nobody working at 1 am CET. I notice that you did log in at 1pm 
while I was getting lunch, but logged back out before I coud reply.

You'll find versions of the snswer above in our IRC logs, as well as on 
Stack Overflow. So now your question has been answered three times.


Ken

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using ghostscript to convert ps or eps to pdf/png/jpg??? daviddschool@gmail.com - 2018-02-13 17:58 -0800
  Re: using ghostscript to convert ps or eps to pdf/png/jpg??? helbig@asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)) - 2018-02-14 06:24 +0000
  Re: using ghostscript to convert ps or eps to pdf/png/jpg??? ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2018-02-14 08:42 +0000

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