Unable to locate Ghostscript installation

Asked By lukegams 1020 points N/A Posted on - 07/13/2011

Hi,

I am at our office doing some business proposals using ms word, when I am done writing the proposals, I want it to be save into a PDF file, so I used Bullzip to print it to a PDF file, when I am on the process of printing my proposal to PDF file,

I meet an error, it is generated by Bullzip, the error message goes Unable to locate Ghostscript installation, see below the error message.

Bullzip PDF Printer

An error occurred.

Error 1005: Unable to locate Ghostscript installation

Source: GUI

Internal hint: Run converter to create PDF file

When I read the error, I am not familiar with it, this is my first time to encounter such error, my office mate cannot help me with this error,

Please help me understand this error, and how to fix this error,

Thanks.

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Answered By Scot1984 15 points N/A #122810

Unable to locate Ghostscript installation

Go through the below information to get install the Ghostscript…

Go to the homepage of Ghostscript. Select either the APFL or GPL version of Ghostscript.

Check the word "Obtaining the latest version of Ghostscript" or "download Ghostscript"  As a general advice, always go for the latest version! At the time of writing the latest current version is 8.50

Locate the Ghostscript package for Windows

Download the Windows installer

Install Ghostscript on your machine

Make Ghostscript available to II2LN

Specify the Ghostscript bin-folder in your PATH environment variable

Copy the content of the bin-folder to a directory already in the PATH statement

Use the SetGhostscriptProcessor import option

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Answered By cathy emrald 5 points N/A #122811

Unable to locate Ghostscript installation

The easiest way to resolve this issue is to download the Ghostscript Lite.

Install it from your computer and then reinstall Bullzip PDF Printer.

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Answered By Carl Jack 10 points N/A #122812

Unable to locate Ghostscript installation

Hello Luke,

The following is the procedure that will help you install Ghostscript on your computer properly:

• First you will need to download Bullzip PDF Printer here or from the following hompage.
• After that you will need to extract the file and then Click on Bullzip program to Install.
• In case you have an Internet connection, you will need to click Next > Install > Finish.

• In the event that you do not have an Internet connection, do as follows:
• After that you will download GhostScript Lite from Bullzip website here. And then you will extract GhostScript Lite and after that Install it.
• You can now can use Bullzip to print PDF file from many program such as Firefox, Word, Autocad, and others.

Regards,

Carl

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