MiKTeX error

[Adam McDougall]

http://download.sourceforge.net/ghostscript/

On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Alex Morris wrote:

> I just installed MiKTeX (a Win32 implementation of LaTeX) and it is working 
> beautifully.  However, the DVI Viewer is giving me an error when I try to 
> embed other files into my TeX document.  I downloaded Ben's latex.tex file 
> and the spiral.eps and sample1.tex (which I then parsed (is that the right 
> term?) to dvi via latex.exe and then used dvips.exe to convert it to a 
> postscript file).  When I parse latex.tex to dvi format and load it into 
> MiKTeX's DVI Viewer I get this error:
> 
> Caption: Yap
> Text: Cannot locate GhostScript DLL
> 
> It also tells me to view the logbook for details.  Here's the log book:
> 
> Loading page 2...
> Loading page 3...
> Loading GhostScript DLL...
> Error: Cannot locate GhostScript DLL.
> 
> Any thoughts on how to resolve this?  Where can I get the GhostScript DLL 
> (must be on an HTTP server, though)?
> 
> I have not searched very much for the GhostScript DLL on my own because 
> everywhere that I look to download this stuff is FTP only, and I have no FTP 
> access here...  Argh!
> 
> As a side note, the program can recover from this error, it's just that some 
> weird remnants show up and none of the graphics show up.  I have not tried 
> printing it, I bet it would be pretty fscked up.
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> - Alex Morris
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