{"id":5538,"date":"2015-02-27T13:21:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T21:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/stage\/?p=5538"},"modified":"2015-02-27T13:21:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T21:21:03","slug":"how-to-fix-error-0-running-command-setup-exe-when-printing-to-cutepdf-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/how-to-fix-error-0-running-command-setup-exe-when-printing-to-cutepdf-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Fix “Error 0 running command .\\Setup.exe” When Printing to CutePDF Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been using the CutePDF Writer<\/a> for quite some time. It comes handy when I need to create a PDF file from just about any Windows application that is able to print, such as Notepad, Paint, InfoPath form, Outlook email, etc. I simply print the file to the CutePDF Writer, which installs as a “printer subsystem”, and it saves the file as a PDF. Obviously, for common Microsoft Office 2013 applications (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) I use the built-in “Save as PDF or XPS” option.<\/p>\n

If you are not familiar with the CutePDF Writer, it’s a free version of the commercial PDF converter<\/strong> software. It supports Microsoft Windows 98\/ME\/2000\/XP\/2003\/Vista\/7\/2012\/8\/8.1\u00a0(32-bit\/64-bit). It also requires a PS2PDF converter such as Ghostscript. CutePDF Writer can be downloaded here<\/a> and the converter (GPL Ghostscript) is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Recently on my Windows 8.1 computer the CutePDF Writer suddenly quit working. When I tried to print to the CutePDF Writer I received the following error.<\/p>\n

Error 0 running command .\\Setup.exe<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Error_0\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I downloaded the latest version of the CutePDF Writer again but that didn’t make a difference because the problem was not with CutePDF Writer, the error was generated when I ran the converter. I downloaded the latest converter and I still received the same Error 0. Notice that the error is generated by the WinZip Self-Extractor so I decided to extract the file manually and was able to fix the problem. Here’s my step-by-step solution.<\/p>\n

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  1. Download the latest version of GPL\u00a0Ghostscript converter<\/a>. At the time of writing the latest version was 8.15.<\/li>\n
  2. Right-click the file and extract it. I use 7-Zip utility.
    \n    \"Extract_converter\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. The extraction utility will create a 120KB Setup.exe file and a GPLGS folder that will contain 203 files.<\/li>\n
  4. Run the Setup.exe file as an Administrator. You should be able to install the converter without any problems.<\/li>\n
  5. Print a file to the CutePDF Writer to make sure the software is working fine.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    Copyright \u00a9 2015 SeattlePro Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I have been using the CutePDF Writer for quite some time. It comes handy when I need to create a PDF file from just about any Windows application that is able to print, such as Notepad, Paint, InfoPath form, Outlook email, etc. I simply print the file to the CutePDF Writer, which installs as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,11,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-tips-tricks","category-toolsutils"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Error_0.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}