Change PDFCreator's ghostscriptversion with VBA

[Melchisedek]

Hi,

I've installed two versions of Ghostscript (9.00 & 9.04) with my PDFCreator (ver. 1.2.0 ). Can I change/select the ghostscript-version with VBA, when creating a PDF?

[Ken Puls]

I don't believe so. I would have thought that 9.04 would actually overwrite 9.00 on the install to be honest...

Is there a reason why you'd want to change the ghostscript version at run time?

[Melchisedek]

I've to produce multiple PDF for a customer and it seems, that PDF´s could not be opened. The PDF´s, that caused problems were those, produced with 9.04 Ghostscript.
I can´t uninstall the 9.04 because of missing admin-rights. I've now a "workaround".
If PDF creator starts to create PDF´s, it uses one of the two installed ghostscript versions for all created PDFs and did not change this. The used version I can query. If it doesn´t match 9.00 the procedure ends with a message. The user can manually change the version and restart. The change of the version seems to be saved within the userprofile of windows.

[Ken Puls]

Cool, glad you got it sorted.

Interesting that the Ghostscript versions can co-exist, and also that they produce different results. I wouldn't have expected either.