[tex-live] PS_View doesn't work

Siep Kroonenberg siepo at cybercomm.nl
Wed Oct 22 14:19:17 CEST 2008


On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 02:50:38PM +0200, Staszek Wawrykiewicz wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Norbert Preining wrote:
> 
> > Hi Staszek,
> > 
> > On Fr, 17 Okt 2008, Akira Kakuto wrote:
> > > > I'm using TeX-Live installed on Vista.
> > > > When I open a ps file with PS_View I get the following pop-up message:
> > > > 
> > > > -------------------
> > > > 
> > > >     Directory 'c:\users\<username>\AppData\Local\Temp\.PS_View couldn't
> > > >     be created (error 5: access is denied.)
> > > > 
> > > > -------------------
> > > > 
> > > > If I click on OK the pop-up message is closed and the ps file is opened.
> > > > How can I do to stop that pop-up message?
> > > 
> > > It is the same here. I don't know why.
> > 
> > Can you please forward this to the psview author, maybe he can do
> > something about it.
> 
> Piotr will investigate it. However this seems a problem of Vista, eg. 
> Acrobat 8.1:
> http://www.vistax64.com/vista-security/96380-acrobat-distiller-error-acrobat-8-1-vista.html

This is an access denied error when trying to access the user's
_own_ temp directory. I have encountered such odd access denied
errors myself, too; in fact, I just reproduced this error. This
shouldn't require elevated permissions, unless somehow ps_view is
trying to create the directory with unavailable permissions?

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg


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