======  The Foomatic Ghostscript Wrapper ======

**The foomatic-gs-wrapper is not needed any more in Foomatic 4.0 and therefore obsolete. This page is only available for historical reasons. Note that the script is not downloadable any more as a single file but only as part of the [[http://www.openprinting.org/download/foomatic/oldstuff/|foomatic-rip 3.0.x tarballs]] or from the [[http://bzr.openprinting.org/foomatic-3.0/|Foomatic 3.0.x BZR repositories]].**

You may want to install the ''foomatic-gswrapper'' script. This runs Ghostscript in a more controlled way, and makes debugging much easier by letting you see Ghostscript error messsages.

The wrapper is //required// if you print jobs from the Windows PostScript driver (which writes jobs that generate advisory output that causes trouble under plain Ghostscript). Some other software may produce such jobs; the wrapper is probably a good idea in general.

To install, save somewhere in your path as ''foomatic-gswrapper'' and mark executable with ''chmod 755 foomatic-gswrapper''. Be sure that ''foomatic-rip'' can find foomatic-gswrapper; it might be easiest to install it in ''/usr/bin'', which is almost always in the default path.

Report bugs on our [[http://bugs.linux-foundation.org/|bug tracking system]], product "OpenPrinting", component "foomatic-filters".