Throughout the application you will be given the option to export (attach to emails or save) reports, letters, receipts, lab copies, etc. in PDF format. For PDF exports to work, you must install a free third party product called GNU Ghostscript.
To setup GNU Ghostscript on your computer, follow these steps:
1. Determine whether your computer is running a 32 or a 64-bit version of Windows. To do this, click the Windows Start button and right-click on Computer (Windows Vista, 7, Server 2008) or My Computer (Windows XP, Server 2003). Click on Properties in the pop-up menu. For Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, if the operating system includes “x64 Edition”, your computer is running a 64-bit version. If it does not, it is running a 32-bit version of Windows. For the newer vesions of Windows, under the ‘System’ section, look at the ‘System type’.
2. Download the proper version of the GNU Ghostscript installer. Considering wheter your Windows was 32 or 64-bit, as determined in the previous step, donwload the installer from one of the following links:
§ If it was 32-bit: http://mve.s3.amazonaws.com/Software/GhostScript/gs861w32.exe
§ If it was 64-bit: http://mve.s3.amazonaws.com/Software/GhostScript/gs861w64.exe
3. Execute the installer downloaded. The application path for GNU Ghostscript will default to “C:\Program Files\gs” during the installation. If you override this default, make sure that you remember the path that you specify.
4. Start the Add Printer wizard.
§ In Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008; click the Windows Start button and –in the search box– type “Add Printer” (without the double quotes). Press [Enter] in your keyboard.
§ For Windows XP or Windows Server 2003, click the Windows Start button and go to Control Panel. Open ‘Printers and Other Hardware’. Click on ‘Add Printer’.
5. Select the option to ‘Add a local printer’.
6. Leave the default (LPT1) port selected and click Next.
7. Click the Have Disk… button and navigate to the path specified in step 3. Navigate further down to the “..\gs8.61\lib” folder. Select the “ghostpdf.inf” file, click Open and then OK.
8. Click Next and name your printer “Sybase Datawindow PS” (without the double quotes).
9. If you get a warning saying that “Windows can’t verify the publisher of this driver software”, select the ‘Install this driver software anyway’ option.
10. Click Next, you do not need to share this printer.
11. Clear the ‘Set as default printer’ checkbox and click the Finish button.
You should be able to generate PDF export files from My Vision Express now.