Examples for calling Ghostscript from Visual Basic

Included are two examples, one for Visual Basic 6 (gsapi_vb6.bat) 
and the other for Visual Basic.NET (gsapi_vbnet.vb).
These examples show how to convert a PostScript file to
a PDF file.  The VB.NET example also shows how to use
console input and output.

The display device is not supported.

These require Ghostscript 7 or later.
It is not possible to use the old DLL interface (GS 6.x and earlier)
from Visual Basic.

You will need to place the Ghostscript DLL where it can be found
by Visual Basic.

These examples are provided with NO WARRANTY AND NO SUPPORT.
Hopefully they will save you a few hours.

Russell Lang, Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd
Dan Mount
2002-03-18


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