I have old media for ghostscript and have been using the gsprint utility for years to silently print pdf files to a print queue for a physical printer.
I have a new machine and wanted to re-vamp the solution and update to current media. I've installed ghostscript by downloading from ghostscript.com and version 9.25 was installed. However when I searched for the file gsprint.exe I didn't find it.
Note: the old solution was a compiled application calling gsprint via a shell. The new solution is to be just a small windows script.
Is gsprint.exe still included? Has it been replaced? Is there possibly a specific install that anyone can point me to?
Thanks!
KC
gsprint isn't (and never was) part of Ghostscript, it is part of GSView 5. GSView 5 can still be downloaded from Ghostgum though whether it still works is a different question.
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Trying to update my 32-bit Cygwin install on a Windows 10 64-bit fresh install and every setup-x86 I have tried fails with errors.
I had it all working on my old system, which was a Windows 7 upgrade to Windows 10. My 3rd party SDK with Cygwin plus an upgrade was installed a good few years ago while on Windows 7 then did the Windows 10 upgrade thing. I could still compile my code for an embedded processor device with no errors after that.
But Microsoft corrupted my system with the last update (December 2022) so my system was unbootable and irreparable by any of their troubleshooting Advanced methods.
So I put a new hard drive in and installed windows 10 from scratch.
Two weeks later I have reinstalled much software but now I am at my SDK re-install and cannot get any Cygwin version to download.
I have a 3rd party SDK which instructs me to install their Cygwin first (version 1.5.18) then remove some environment variables, then go to http://www.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/Cygwin/timemachine.html and Follow the “Dead Simple Instructions" and go for "any version 2017 +".
After downloading the files I must copy the directory to my original install directory, thus upgrading the install.
I just cannot download anything though.
I went to that time machine page and was totally confused. I noticed they said "this is the last 32 bit install" on several places, so I tried clicking on all those setup-x86 links.
I tried running the downloaded setup-x86 files from the download directory but each one failed.
On most of the more recent setup-x86 files,(like 2.924) it shows a small blue square telling me Windows protected me etc. I click Run anyway and then it says "Cygwin is not supported on 32-bit windows".
So I tried earlier versions like 2.909 and they show the interface; I choose download, then choose the download directory ( a folder on my desktop) then I have tried both direct connection and use system proxy; then I select a mirror (tried all of them, I think) and it begins some action then stops with errors like:
"https:\cygwin.mirror.constant.com\x86\setup.ini line 12: The current ini file requires at least version 2.924 of setup. Please download a newer version from https://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe"
But I have already tried 2.924 and it gives the "Cygwin is not supported on 32-bit windows" error!
With setup-x86-2.874.exe, it shows the interface etc. but in the mirror list all I see is http://update.setup.invalid.
With 2.774 it does the interface then "Unable to get setup.ini from 'my selected mirror url'.
Then I tried that page https://cygwin.com/install.html#unsupported, where I tried the circa urls and did these from an Administrator command line, as they say. No good- errors.
Under "Dead Simple Instructions"(no they are not) I followed the link to the machine top level snapshot index, but each link their only gives a plain text list of files- nothing downloadable!
Anyway, copied a url link and then at step 4 it says click for setup-x86. So I did but that blue windows protection square appears. I say run anyway but then it says "Cygwin is not supported on 32-bit windows"!
I am at my wits end! It all worked fine on my old system until Microsoft ruined it with their updates.
How can I get a newer cygwin update for my v1.5, s the 3rd party instructions say???
Aha! I believe I have finally got this to work.
I just found a new release of the instructions for the 3rd party software SDK. They mention version 2.9.0 as the new version they are moving to.
I cannot access their download but I went back and read the Cygwin Time Machine page carefully again (http://www.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/Cygwin/timemachine.html).
Under "Dead Simple Instructions", I looked through the list of dates and versions (http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/index.html) and found 2.9.0-1; surely close enough, eh?
So I copied the URL shown there.
Step 4 Run setup-x86.exe downloaded the setup file and Itried it from an Admin CMD prompt, adding the -X and -D switches. It failed with the 32 bit error, as before.
OK so I read again and near the bottom of the page I spotted "Cygwin Setup Archive".
Ah... I went to the link provided there (http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/setup/setup.html) and found setup-x86-2.901.exe.
After it downloaded, I again used the command prompt to run this and an interface appeared.
I was able to choose the existing install directory, the temporary download directory and add the URL I had copied earlier.
It proceeded to get the list of packages correctly.
I then selected to view files that were installed but may need updating and clicked Next.
It all went correctly. Thanks to Doug who offered help already.
So there is a way to do this.
If anyone was looking for the solution, I found the answer in the Cygwin mailing list. You must launch the setup-x86.exe (setup-x86-2.924.exe) with the --allow-unsupported-windows option --site circa_URL arguments, much like the -X switch was used on prior legacy installers to disable signature checking. circa_URL here is a mirror of legacy repos for Cygwin, where http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/2022/11/23/063457 is the suggested url in the mailing listing post.
Apparently, if you are on a true x86, non-64-bit, Windows OS, this flag is not necessary, though I think the repo mirror may be required.
I maintain a large VB6 application I would like to be able to install on Windows 10. It has a large Help file in WinHelp format. I would like to distribute winhlp32.exe (and winhlp32.exe.mui) with the application rather than replace the winhlp32.exe file in the Windows 10 Windows folder. If I put (an old) winhlp32.exe file in the application folder in Windows 10, and file winhlp32.exe.mui in a subfolder named en-US, the help file works if I enter the command "winhlp32.exe myhelpfile.hlp" in the application folder. However if I run the application exe (created by VB6), and press F1, it runs the Windows 10 winhlp32.exe stub, not the winhlp32.exe in the application folder.
Can anyone suggest how to persuade the VB6 application (before or after compiling it) to use winhlp32.exe from the application folder instead of the Windows folder?
The short story - you may be warned and you know in all it's a heavy task to migrate your VB6 app maybe without reaching a simple way for migrating WinHelp to HTMLHelp.
The official recommendation (10 years old):
Forget about WinHelp, it's history and migrate to CHM help file format.
But, maybe you already have found my answer (search for Run WinHelp on Windows10) and read all further links:
How to convert HLP files into CHM files
Please note a tool called HHPMod especially for migrating context-sensitive F1 help.
I tried the WinHelp of an old VB6 program before and after the fix from above and it is working for me on Windows 10 (Version 1803).
Another solution you may want to try (depends on your deploy and IT environment):
Windows Help Program (WinHlp32.exe) for Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 x64 and x86
Quoted from this article (thanks to Komeil Bahmanpour):
"Please note users who have tried to replace winhlp32.exe manually in Windows folder and winhlp32.exe.mui in Windows\en-US folder of Windows 7, was faced with overwrite restrictions due to ownership and permission problems."
Additional information:
I may well be wrong, but I believe that also (old) online help files are usually copyrighted as part of Microsoft Windows. Distributing the files would normally constitute a violation of copyright law (as you mentioned in your question).
AFAIK developers are not allowed to distribute the Vista version of WinHlp32.exe or included it in their installations. Every individual user who wants to use WinHelp must download the WinHelp update directly from Microsoft and install it themselves.
Help for applications has been .chm for many many years now. Microsoft released the tool HH Workshop (HTMLHelp SDK 1.4) around 1997. Around March 2006 during discussions with MVPs, Microsoft Help team announced that WinHelp would be deprecated (phased out). WinHelp is architected in such a way that Microsoft would have to rewrite it from the ground up to meet the Windows Vista code standards. Since then .CHM has been the only choice for our application help.
What does this mean (please note we are about ten years later now!):
WinHelp runtime (WinHelp32.exe) no longer ships with Windows Vista/7/8/10
ISVs (Independant Software Vendors) should stop promoting WinHelp as a viable help system.
Help authors should move over to HTML Help 1.x (.chm) if they haven't done so already.
HH Workshop is sufficient to author .CHM help files. I'm using a tool with a few more features (drag and drop TOC/Index editing etc) called "FAR HTML". Then there are high-end more expensive tools (you mentioned RoboHelp) that have advanced features such as "convert between different help systems".
Try (untested, but you should get the idea)
Shell App.Path & "\winhlp32.exe myhelpfile"
App.Path gets the executable's current path, so just make sure your winhlp32.exe file is right there with it.
I've created software using Filemaker and I have to create an installer.
I already done it for Windows but I have to create one for Mac too. The installer will be able to install the software, install a font and ask the serial number.
Can someone help me?
I think Apple used to (still does?) offer a program with Xcode that was called PackageMaker, but I don't think they still do. It might be available from a previous version of Xcode. I found surprisingly little information about it online.
However, the command line tools that it was based on, pkgbuild, productbuild, and pkgutil , seem to be installed on my laptop running Yosemite with an Xcode utilities installation.
I would check out the accepted answer to a similar question here on Stack Overflow. It looks quite detailed, but I think it's going to be very advanced work to get a successful package created.
The above is what you probably want if you want your installer to use Apple's own Installer app. If all you want is to create an installer that gets the job done, I would probably use FileMaker itself.
Create a FileMaker file that stores your solution within a container field, lock it down with security and scripting, use Export Field Contents to get the solution file and your fonts to the right places, perhaps with some supporting AppleScript that makes use of the command line. Use FileMaker Advanced to package this up as a runtime solution and all the user has to do is double-click the runtime app and you can guide them from there. Once the installation is complete you could even open the installed solution for them and prompt them at that point to enter a serial number.
There is a file I would really like to use on my mac, but it is .exe and I cannot open it. It is called MCreator, and the file is mcreator.exe, and is used for making minecraft mods without knowing any java. I have tried numerous applications that supposedly can do this, such as wine, mono, and crossover, but none of them seem to work. When I use mono, I type in this, and it returns an error:
Howards-Mac-mini:Mcreator 1.4.2 [1.6.4] Jared$ mono mcreator.exe
Cannot open assembly 'mcreator.exe': File does not contain a valid CIL image.
When I use wine, it just quits and doesn't do anything, even though it displays the icon for MCreator. I cant figure out how to get open a preexisting file on crossover. Does anyone have any ways to fix my problems and/or run this file?
Your best bet is probably to run a virtual machine. Windows XP is good for this inside VirtualBox, as it can run on as little as 512mb of RAM, and 1 single-core virtual processor. Download VirtualBox by going to www.virtualbox.org and as for Windows XP, you can probably get your hands on that but I unfortunately cannot help with that unless you have a genuine COA.
Thanks
You could also try running it in Wine. It allows you to run Windows apps in OS X without a copy of Windows. I've used it successfully before; your mileage may vary.
1)Install Wine and Winebottler from http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/
2)You may have to change the System Preferences >Security & Privacy>Allow Apps downloaded from>Anywhere
2)Run the xyz.exe using winebottler.
Have been running Python 2.7.2 for several months, was using the 32-bit version on my 64-bit computer.
Today ran the installer for 2.7.3, 64-bit. Now I cannot get idle to start. I see answers here for Python in program files, I am running Win7, and I believe the correct location for this machine is in C:\, not in program files. At least that is where I had 2.7.2 and it worked.
So trying
C:\Python27\Lib\idlelib\idle.py
or
C:\Python27\Lib\idlelib\idle.pyw
neither of those would open Idle. With the .py one a console window flashes open for a split second and disappears. On the .pyw one, nothing at all happens as far as I can see. And the pyw one says right on the screen in File Type: "no console"
The old shortcut in the Start menu, under properties says 'target: python 2.7.2', but I don't see a way to change the target.
Also tried opening from Powershell, command line, Python command line, run. None of those worked.
When I downloaded 2.7.3, it said it was overwriting the files in Python27.
Now uninstall offers two programs to uninstall: 2.7.3 and 2.7.2 , but as far as I can tell there is a single Python program on disk and that one thinks it is 2.7.3. I started to uninstall and try a fresh install, but thought I'd ask first rather than risk further screwing up my machine. Thanks in advance for any help. I did read and try to use all the answers in similar questions here on the site.
I ran in to this today. Basically there was already an older version installed and installing over it (I think it was 2.7.2) with 2.7.3 64 bit broke it bad.
At first the CLI python would work but IDLE refused to launch without even an error. Uninstalling/reinstalling did nothing several times, and the problems got weirder as it couldn't find the msi's it had just downloaded, etc. Then I noticed that it wasn't deleting everything in the Python27 folder.
Manually deleting the folder wasn't enough and I found that it was storing another folder under App Data\Roaming (Windows 7). Removing this one finally allowed the re-installation to work (and show up as a newly installed program instead of acting like it had always been there by not highlighting it).
I was about to give up on the 64 bit version and try the 32 but it seems like the Python uninstaller/installer aren't cleaning everything up properly file wise (if it were registry entries I'd still be digging).