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- Ghostview for Windows. Needs Ghostscript 2.6.
-
- ========
- Overview
- ========
- Ghostview for Windows is a graphical interface for MS-Windows Ghostscript.
- Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript page description language
- used by laser printers.
- For documents following the Adobe PostScript Document Structuring
- Conventions, Ghostview allows selected pages to be viewed or printed.
- Ghostview requires MS-Windows Ghostscript 2.6 or later.
-
- Features include:
- - view pages in arbitrary order (Next, Previous, Goto).
- - selectable display resolution.
- - page size is automatically selected from DSC comments.
- - page size can be selected using the menu.
- - orientation is automatically selected from DSC comments.
- - orientation can be selected using the menu (Portrait, Landscape).
- - print selected pages using Ghostscript.
- - extract selected pages to another file.
- - copy display bitmap to clipboard.
- - save clipboard bitmap as BMP file.
- - add bitmap preview to EPS file (Interchange, TIFF or Windows Metafile)
- - graphically select bounding box for EPS file.
- - extract bitmap preview or postscript from DOS EPS file.
- - on-line help.
- - free (GNU General Public Licence).
-
- Ghostview for Windows was written by Russell Lang
- <rjl@monu1.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- Compilation
- ===========
- To compile Ghostview you need Borland C++ 3.1.
- Edit gsview.mak to point COMPBASE at your compiler directory.
- Then type 'make -fgsview.mak'.
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- Setup
- =====
- Copy gsview.exe and gsview.hlp to the Ghostscript directory.
- If Ghostview can't run Ghostscript, or Ghostscript exits with error code 1,
- then from the Ghostview menu select "Options | Ghostscript Command"
- and enter the correct executable path and include path for Ghostscript.
-
- Ghostview will run under Windows 3.1.
- Ghostview will probably run under Windows 3.0, but you need commdlg.dll,
- shell.dll and winhelp.exe from Windows 3.1. Very little testing has
- been done with Windows 3.0. If it works at all consider yourself lucky.
-
- See the on-line help for more details.
- The 'Common Problems' topic is worth reading if Ghostview for
- Windows won't work.
-
- ====
- Bugs
- ====
- This is Ghostview for Windows 1.0.
- Send bug reports to rjl@monu1.cc.monash.edu.au.
- When reporting bugs, please include the version number and date of
- Ghostview for Windows (from the Help | About box), the version number
- of Ghostscript, and the exact wording of any error messages.
- If you get a GPF, please send the address of the GPF - I can use
- this to help locate the bug.
- Don't expect a fast response - the work I'm paid to do has a higher
- priority.
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- Updates
- =======
- The latest version of Ghostview for Windows should be available from
- ftp.cs.wisc.edu:pub/ghost/gsview*.zip
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- Acknowledgements
- ================
- Tim Theisen, who wrote Ghostview for X11. Without Ghostview and its
- ps.c module, Ghostview for Windows would never have been written.
-
- L. Peter Deutsch, for writing Ghostscript and for making changes to
- Ghostscript to support Ghostview for Windows.
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