Re: Print to PDF under Windows

[Ben Abbott]

On Thursday, November 19, 2009, at 03:39PM, "Michael Goffioul" <address@hidden> 
wrote:
>Hi,
>
>In print.m, I see the following pieces of code:
>
>... (line 194)
>  elseif (ispc ())
>    if (~isempty (getenv ("GSC")))
>      persistent ghostscript_binary = getenv ("GSC");
>    else
>      persistent ghostscript_binary = "gswin32c";
>    endif
>...
>... (line 265)
>    elseif (ispc ())
>      [status, output] = system (sprintf ("if exist \"%s\" ( exit /B 1
>) else ( exit /B 0 )", ghostscript_binary));
>      have_ghostscript = (status ~= 0);
>    endif
>...
>
>Now, let's say GSC is not defined. How is this supposed to work?
>The "system" call will check for the existence of a file named
>"gswin32c" in the current directory. This will never work... or am
>I missing something?
>
>Wouldn't it be better to default to
>
>      persistent ghostscript_binary = file_in_path(EXEC_PATH, "gswin32c.exe");
>
>Michael.

I'd expect both to work. Unless the the windows binary bundles ghostscript with 
octave. Is that the case?

Ben