ps2pdf Windows 7 Miktex 2.9

Question

I'm about to submit a Latex template to a colleague organizing a conference but one of my tests fails. This is the one on Windows 7 and Miktex 2.9 with the ps2pdf executable to create the final pdf file. I'm using Ghostscript 9.05 and I just reinstalled Miktex 2.9 to make sure but invariably get the following error message:

Command Line:   "C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\ps2pdf.exe" "File.ps"
Startup Folder: C:\Users\User\Desktop\conference

Error: /undefinedfilename in (File.ps)
Operand stack:

Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--     2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1169/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:77/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: No such file or directory
MiKTeX GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1`

Everything else works fine. I can open the File.ps file in Ghostview and convert it to a pdf. The following command line works too: epstopdf File.ps (even though it should be avoided). Equivalent Adobe tools do work as well. I still want to recommend the ps2pdf command because this is the one by default. It used to work in the past but fails now.

I do not know what is wrong here with this ps2pdf command and I am interested in current Windows/Miktex 2.9 users' experience. It looks to me that everything is correctly set-up though.

Edit: there is something wrong is my computer but I cannot figure out what.

Answer 1

there seems to be a problem with the security setting of GhostScript, it doesn't allow to open and run external files. Try

ps2pdf -dNoSafer <file>

For dvips exists also a security option:

-R[0|1|2]  Run securely.  
  -R2 disables both shell command execution in \special'{} (via 
      backticks ` ) and config  files  (via  the  E option),  and  
      opening of any absolute filenames.  
  -R1 , the default, forbids shell escapes but allows absolute filenames. 
  -R0 allows both.  The config file option is z