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- README.GV 1996-01-10
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- GSview 1.4 - PostScript previewer. Needs Ghostscript 3.53.
-
- ========
- Overview
- ========
- PM GSview is a graphical interface for OS/2 Ghostscript.
- GSview 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, GSview allows selected pages to be viewed or printed.
- Ghostscript is required, preferably version 3.33 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 (GSview Free Public Licence).
- New features in version 1.1:
- - Works with Ghostscript 3.0 (Level 2 PostScript)
- - PM GSview (OS/2).
- - GSview for Windows Win32s.
- - change display depth (bits/pixel).
- - added option to ignore DSC comments.
- - zoom with right mouse button.
- - buttons to change resolution by 1.2 or 1/1.2.
- - cursor position displayed in pt, mm or inch.
- - extract text from postscript.
- - find text.
- New features in version 1.2:
- - Works under Windows NT 3.5.
- - Draw bounding box over image (OS/2 only).
- - Works with GS 2.6.1 under MS-Windows, but not recommended.
- New features in version 1.3:
- - Display PDF files (OS/2 only).
- - Works under Windows 95 (see gvcbugs.doc)
- - Smaller text in Windows Dialog boxes.
- New features in version 1.4:
- - Installation program (os2setup, winsetup).
- - Uses print queues under OS/2 and Win95/NT.
- - Uses gs16spl to talk to 16-bit print queue from Win32s.
- - Add user supplied preview (usually WMF) to EPS file.
- - Page Offset for printing
-
- PM GSview and GSview for Windows were written by Russell Lang.
-
- ============
- Installation
- ============
- Create four 1.44M floppies containing the following files, or
- put them all in the same directory on your hard disk.
-
- Disk 1:
- gsview.zip
- README.GV
- FILE_ID.DIZ
- os2setup.exe OS/2 installation program
- os2unzip.exe OS/2 INFO-ZIP unzip utility
- winsetup.exe MS-Windows installation program
- winunzip.exe MS-Windows INFO-ZIP unzip utility
- emxrt.zip EMX Run Time library for OS/2.
-
- Disk 2:
- gs353ini.zip Aladdin Ghostscript library files
- gs353dos.zip MS-DOS 386 Aladdin Ghostscript
-
- Disk 3:
- gs353os2.zip OS/2 Aladdin Ghostscript
- gs353w32.zip MS-Windows Win32 Aladdin Ghostscript
- gs353win.zip MS-Windows 3.1 Aladdin Ghostscript
-
- Disk 4:
- gs353fn1.zip Aladdin Ghostscript fonts.
-
- Disk 1 is the contents of gsview14.zip plus the file emxrt.zip obtained
- from ftp://ftp-os2.nmsu.edu/os2/unix/emx09b/emxrt.zip.
- Disks 2 to 4 are obtained from ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/aladdin/
-
- If using the floppy install method, 7Mbytes of hard disk space is required.
-
- To install from OS/2, run 'os2setup.exe' from disk 1.
- To install from MS-Windows, run 'winsetup.exe' from disk 1.
- The installation will overwrite any version of GSview or
- Aladdin Ghostscript in the destination directories. If you
- wish to save your Fontmap file, back it up to another directory.
- Make sure that the zip files are transferred in binary mode and
- are all present. The install program will not report bad zip files.
-
- If you don't like automatic installation programs, it is
- possible to install GSview and Ghostscript manually. See
- the Setup topic below for more details.
-
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- Compilation
- ===========
- To compile PM GSview you need IBM NMAKE.EXE and EMX/GCC 0.9b
- with emxfix01 or later.
- To create the PM GSview online help you need the IBM toolkit.
- Copy gvpm.mak to Makefile and edit COMPBASE and EMXPATH as required.
- Type 'nmake'
-
- To compile GSview for Windows you need Borland C++ 3.1 or 4.5.
- To compile GSview for Windows Win32s you need Borland C++ 4.5.
- Copy gvwin.mak to Makefile then edit COMPBASE and WIN32 as required.
- Type 'make'.
-
- =====
- Setup
- =====
- Copy gvpm.exe, gvpm.hlp, gsview.exe, gsview32.exe, gsview.hlp
- and gsv16spl.exe to the Ghostscript directory.
- Start GSview then select "Options | Configure Ghostscript",
- and enter the correct executable and include paths for Ghostscript.
- For example:
- c:\gs\gsos2.exe
- c:\gs;c:\psfonts
-
- PM GSview will run under OS/2 2.1 and OS/2 Warp.
- It may run under OS/2 2.0.
- PM GSview has been compiled with EMX/GCC 0.9b and requires
- the emx 0.9b DLL's. These are available from
- ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/os2/unix/emx09b/emxrt.zip
-
- GSview for Windows will run under Windows 3.1.
- GSview will probably run under Windows 3.0, but you need a special
- version of commdlg.dll, shell.dll and winhelp.exe. This version has never
- been tested with Windows 3.0. If it works at all consider yourself lucky.
-
- gsview32.exe will work with Ghostscript under Windows 3.1/Win32s,
- Windows NT 3.5 or Windows 95, but may have a few problems with the
- latter two.
-
- See the on-line help for more details.
- The 'Common Problems' topic is worth reading if GSview won't work.
-
- ====
- Bugs
- ====
- Send bug reports to Russell Lang <rjl@aladdin.com>.
- (This is an alias provided by Aladdin Enterprises. Russell Lang is not
- an employee or agent of Aladdin Enterprises).
- When reporting bugs, please include the version number and date of
- GSview (from the Help | About box), the version number of Ghostscript,
- and the exact wording of any error messages. Ghostscript error
- messages can be copied to the clipboard using the system menu of
- the Ghostscript text window.
- Do not send me large files unless requested.
- If you get a SYS3175 or GPF, please send the address of the GPF - I can
- use this to help locate the bug.
- Please distinguish between bugs in GSview and bugs in Ghostscript.
- Don't expect a fast response - the work I'm paid to do has a higher
- priority.
-
- =======
- Updates
- =======
- The latest version of PM GSview and GSview for Windows should
- be available from
- ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/rjl/gsview*.zip
- or by mail (see next section).
-
- A World Wide Web home page for Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview is at
- http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html
-
- ==================================
- Copyright, Licensing and Donations
- ==================================
- GSview is copyright by Russell Lang.
- GSview is distributed with the GSview Free Public Licence.
- This licence is contained in the file LICENCE.
- The GSview Free Public Licence does not require any payment to the author;
- however the author would welcome any donations to cover costs and time
- involved in developing and maintaining GSview. These may be sent to
- Russell Lang
- 12 Princetown Road
- MOUNT WAVERLEY VIC 3149
- AUSTRALIA
- Donations are preferred in Australian dollars because it costs AUS$5
- to bank an overseas currency cheque.
- If the donation is over AUS$40 or US$40 then the author will mail
- the next update to you on a 3.5" HD disk (it won't fit on my 5.25" DD),
- provided you supply the information below.
- Updates are not likely to be frequent.
- Please accompany donations with the following information:
- Your name.
- Your postal address.
- Your email address (if you have one).
- Version number of GSview.
- Where you obtained or heard about GSview.
- Version number of Ghostscript.
- Donation amount and currency.
- Do you want updates to be mailed to you on disk?
-
- The ps.c module is copyright by Tim Theisen and is covered by the
- licence in the file PUBLIC.
-
- GSview uses Ghostscript to display the contents of the PostScript
- files. Ghostscript is a separate program from GSview; it is
- written and owned by Aladdin Enterprises, not by Russell Lang.
-
- Aladdin Ghostscript comes with a licence that is more restrictive than
- the GNU Licence; in particular, it restricts the distribution of
- Aladdin Ghostscript in commercial contexts. Please see the file PUBLIC
- that accompanies Aladdin Ghostscript for more details.
-
- ================
- Acknowledgements
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- Tim Theisen, who wrote Ghostview for X11 which provided the inspiration
- for PM GSview and GSview for Windows. Also for permission to use his
- ps.c module from Ghostview.
-
- L. Peter Deutsch, for writing Ghostscript and for making changes to
- Ghostscript to support GSview for Windows.
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