Title: Ghostscript shown as not working
Last modified: March 10, 2021

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# Ghostscript shown as not working

 *  [idad5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/idad5/)
 * (@idad5)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ghostscript-shown-as-not-working/)
 * Hi,
    I have you plugin installed on my windows dev-server and it shows that Imagick
   ist installed but ghostscript isn’t. In fact I’m rather sure by now that it is,
   just not in the way you test for it or wordpress expects to use it to generate
   pdf-thumbnails And wordpress does not generate pdf thumbnails. I also have an
   other plugin ‘Debug Media’ that tells me that ghostscript is installed and also
   the correct version.
 * I spent a lot of time trying to find a solution, but I’m stuck. So I hope that
   you maybe able to point me in the right direction.
    THX

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 *  Thread Starter [idad5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/idad5/)
 * (@idad5)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ghostscript-shown-as-not-working/#post-14162906)
 * Ok, by now I learned a lot more.
 * In my installation there is a problem with the PLEC dll. It seems that this isn’t
   restricted to the latest version and not even to windows. It reports @PACKAGE_VERSION@
   instead of a useful version. That was the reason wordpress woulndt use WP_Image_Editor_Imagick
   but gd. A bug on the PLEC side and suboptimal (9 years old) programming in the
   wordpress class.
 * The reason why your plugin reported ghosscript as not installed however is, that
   you use ‘which’ to check for it and that isn’t available on windows, even if 
   ghostscript is.
 * I propose you either make clear that you plugin only works for non windows servers
   or you update it to work on windows. But that’s just a suggestion and I’m glad
   you offered it in the first place.

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