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- @@@STARTPACK(gs;Aladdin Ghostscript - A PostScript(tm) interpreter)
- <P>
- @@@UW2DIST(http://www.sco.com/skunkware/uw7/textproc/gs/)
- @@@OSR5DIST(http://www.sco.com/skunkware/osr5/textproc/gs/)
- @@@SOURCE(ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/aladdin/)
-
- <P>Ghostscript is a PostScript viewer,interpreter and converter. Using
- Ghostscript you can "convert" a PostScript document to be displayed on
- a wide range of devices, from an X11 screen to a whole plethora of
- printers. A companion program, GhostView, provides an easier viewing
- interface for X11.</P>
-
- <P>Ghostscript supports PostScript, PostScript levels 1 and 2 and PDF
- files as input, and can produce output for the following devices and
- file formats:
- <TT>x11 x11alpha x11cmyk x11gray2 x11mono sxlcrt ega vga svga16 ap3250
- appledmp bj10e bj200 bjc600 bjc800 ccr cdeskjet cdjcolor cdjmono cdj500
- cdj550 cp50 declj250 deskjet djet500 djet500c dnj650c epson eps9mid
- eps9high epsonc ibmpro imagen iwhi iwlo iwlq jetp3852 laserjet la50 lbp8
- lips3 ln03 lj250 ljet2p ljet3 ljet3d ljet4 lj4dith ljetplus lj5gray
- lp2563 lp8000 lq850 m8510 necp6 oce9050 oki182 okiibm paintjet pj pjetxl
- pjxl pjxl300 pxlmono pxlcolor r4081 sj48 st800 stcolor t4693d2 t4693d4
- t4693d8 tek4696 uniprint xes dfaxhigh dfaxlow faxg3 faxg32d faxg4
- tiffcrle tiffg3 tiffg32d tiffg4 epswrite pdfwrite pswrite bit bitrgb
- bitcmyk bmpmono bmp16 bmp256 bmp16m cgmmono cgm8 cgm24 cif jpeg jpeggray
- miff24 mgrmono mgrgray2 mgrgray4 mgrgray8 mgr4 mgr8 pcxmono pcxgray pcx16
- pcx256 pcx24b pbm pbmraw pgm pgmraw pgnm pgnmraw pnm pnmraw ppm ppmraw
- pkm pkmraw pngmono pnggray png16 png256 png16m psmono psgray sgirgb
- tiff12nc tiff24nc tifflzw tiffpack</TT>.</P>
-
- <P>This version of Ghostscript can also render directly to the OSR5
- console. To do this, use the command <TT>gs -sDEVICE=vga FILENAME</TT>.</P>
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