I have been battling trying to get 6.2.2 working. It keeps on coming up with an internal Ghostscript error and no matter what I've tried, even uninstalled, rebooted, reinstalled, it still keeps on coming up with that. I'm trying to go back to version 5.2.2 to see if that will help but if there's any way anybody can help, I would appreciate it very much.
That confirms it — Ghostscript is running but can't write its output into the intermediate_celhympy folder. Yet we know Ghostscript itself works fine (it wrote to C:\Temp no problem).
Let's test this directly. Run this command, which tells Ghostscript to write into that exact intermediate folder:
"C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Ghostscript\bin\gswin64c.exe" -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -o "C:\Users\Brian Vermaak\AppData\Local\Temp\PDFCreator\spool\intermediate_celhympy\test.pdf" "C:\Users\Brian Vermaak\AppData\Local\Temp\PDFCreator\spool\13-242BDC7810A14769BEB7325222862FD7.PS"
This will tell us definitively whether Ghostscript can write into that specific folder.
If that fails, run the icacls command targeting that specific folder:
icacls "C:\Users\Brian Vermaak\AppData\Local\Temp\PDFCreator\spool\intermediate_celhympy" /grant Everyone:(OI)(CI)F
Then try the Ghostscript command again.
Note — the folder and PS filename will have changed since your last print attempt, so first trigger another print to PDFCreator, then quickly check the spool folder for the new folder and PS filename before running the command.
for any new PDF file. - works - tried again - but still error
Excellent — test.pdf is in intermediate_celhympy, so Ghostscript can write there perfectly.
But Image 2 shows the real problem — there are now two sets of folders:
intermediate_celhympy+temp_celhympy(old job)intermediate_cibhhiye+temp_cibhhiye(new job)
PDFCreator is creating a new pair of folders for each job with a random suffix. When it then looks for the intermediate PDF, it's looking in the new intermediate_cibhhiye folder — which is empty because Ghostscript wrote to the old one.
This is a bug in PDFCreator 6.2.2 — it's generating the random folder name twice, once when creating the folders and once when looking for the output, and getting a different name each time.
I'd suggest:
- Check the PDFCreator forums/release notes for known bugs in 6.2.2
- Try downgrading to an earlier version — PDFCreator 5.x or even 6.1.x was likely stable for your use case
What version was installed before you updated? If you know, we can try to find that specific installer.