Ghostscript Timeout

When the printer runs Ghostscript to convert the output into a PDF document it has a default timeout of 600 seconds (10 minutes). In case Ghostscript is still running after the timeout has expired it is terminated. This is done to prevent a crashed instance of Ghostscript to remain in memory if something goes wrong.

A timeout error will produce an error 1008 with the text 'Ghostscript timed out'.

This timeout can cause problems if Ghostscript hasn't finished because it is working on a huge document. In this case you might experience incomplete or empty PDF documents as a result of the Ghostscript process being terminated. You can change the timeout to fit your purpose. This is done using a setting named GhostscriptTimeout.

The GhostscriptTimeout setting can be specified in the global.ini file.

The sample below shows how to change the Ghostscript timeout in an ini file.

Place the above content in a file named global.ini, which is the file name of the global settings file for a bioPDF PDF Writer. The location of the global.ini file is documented in the section about the configuration files.