title: GPL Ghostscript 8.70: Can't start ijs server
body: <p>I'm trying to get ghostscript to convert PDFs to PCL-5 (or 5e) using a driver capable of being configured (the built-in drivers produce very surprisingly large output, and I need something capable of being tweaked).</p>
  
  <p>I have gutenprint compiled, and have placed the ijsgutenprint executable at <code>/home/marcintustin/webapps/django/oneclickcosvirt/bin/ijsgutenprint.5.2</code>. When I try to invoke it with ghostscript with </p>
  
  <pre><code>gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOCIE -dSAFER -sDEVICE=ijs \ 
  -sIjsServer=/home/marcintustin/webapps/django/oneclickcosvirt/bin/ijsgutenprint.5.2  \
  -sDeviceManufacturer=vendor  -sDeviceModel=name -sOutputFile=- - &lt; sztst.pdf  &gt; sztst.pcl
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I get the error <code>GPL Ghostscript 8.70: Can't start ijs server "/home/marcintustin/webapps/django/oneclickcosvirt/bin/ijsgutenprint.5.2"</code>. I am mystified because the file is at the given location, is set executable, and can be invoked without error from the commandline. Any ideas on what's wrong / another way to solve this?</p>
  
  <p>(I'm doing this on a shared host, to which I am not root, so I can't configure system-wide printing, and I'd prefer not to install any printing-related daemons unless absolutely necessary).</p>