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- Ghostscript (gs.exe) is a program to view postscript files on a
- computer display or print to a non-postscript printer. Many
- thanks to the primary author of Ghostscript, Peter Deutsch:
-
- L. Peter Deutsch :: Aladdin Enterprises :: P.O. box 60264, Palo Alto, CA 94306
- ghost@aladdin.com ; ...decwrl!aladdin!ghost ; (415)322-0103 <<< new phone #
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- Please read the file COPYING for license and distribution restrictions.
-
- Note that the full source for ghostscript 2.3 is available from
-
- prep.ai.mit.edu
-
- in directory pub/gnu.
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- Whats New in GS23A.ZIP compared to GS23.ZIP:
-
- o Improved Epson drivers with various resolutions
- o Two sample .eps color file examples
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- This archive includes Ghostscript Version 2.3 built from the
- distribution source (available from prep.ai.mit.edu), but with the
- epson driver written by David Wexelblat (source in mydeveps.c, usage
- description in epson.inf) to support the following devices:
-
- Screen:
- Borland BGI - requires Borland BGI drivers
- VGA - Built in
- EGA - Built in
-
- Printers:
- Epson - Built in (eps9, eps9draft, eps9high,
- eps24, eps24draft)
- HP Deskjet - Built in (deskjet)
- HP Laserjet - Built in (laserjet)
- HP Laserjet IIP - Built in (ljet2p)
- HP Laserjet III - Built in (ljet3)
- HP Paintjet - Built in (paintjet)
-
- Use the above printer names as shown for the -sDEVICE=
- or selectdevice names (see use.doc) for printer output.
- See epson.inf for information on using an epson printer.
-
- In this archive, ghostscript was built for two different Epson
- printers, typically usable with either the 24-pin or 9-pin printer as
- follows:
-
- Printing
- Passes
- Per Line
- Program Name: gs2360.exe gs2372.exe
-
- Driver Name Resolution Resolution
- eps9: 240(h) x 60(v) 240(h) x 72(v) 2
- eps9draft: 120(h) x 60(v) 120(h) x 72(v) 1
- eps9high: 240(h) x 180(v) 240(h) x 216(v) 6
- eps24: 360(h) x 180(v) 360(h) x 216(v) 2
- eps24draft: 180(h) x 180(v) 180(h) x 216(v) 1
-
- See epson.inf for more details. For devices other than epson
- printers, either gs2360 or gs2372 may be used.
-
- The Borland BGI interface can be used to view postscript files on
- other types of video screens, for example:
-
- Screen Type BGI Driver
-
- Hercules herc.bgi
- CGA cga.bgi
- SVGA svga256.bgi or svga16.bgi (available from Simtel)
-
- The .bgi files are not included in this archive in accordance with
- the Borland license.
-
- Excellent output is obtained on a 1024x768x256 SVGA setup by having
- the file svga256.bgi (from svgabg21.zip) in the same directory as
- gs.exe and setting the environment variable:
-
- bgiuser=4.svga256
-
- See use.doc on how to send a postscript file to a specific printer
- device.
-
- An assortment of postscript samples are included in the archive.
-
- All the user oriented documentation from the Ghostscript source
- is included in the archive.
-
- I have tested the screen output in cga, vga and hercules modes. Epson
- printer output on 9-pin and 24-pin printers was tested for all five
- epson devices (9 pin printers with 72 dpi on the y-axis and 24 pin
- printer with 60 dpi on the y-axis).
-
- Newsgroup gnu.ghostscript.bugs contains discussion of ghostscript
- issues.
-
-
- 1 Examples
-
- Example to show golfer.ps:
-
- gs golfer.ps > foo
-
- > foo directs error messages from the screen to file foo.
-
- Type quit to exit from ghostscript.
-
- Example to show multiple postscript files:
-
- gs pltfile.ps output.ps > foo
-
- Note that after each picture a carriage return will go onto
- either the next page or the next file.
-
- 2. Use after ghostscript is running
-
- Within ghostscript, one can type any postscript command
- (e.g. 1.5 1.5 scale to scale x and y by factor 1.5)
-
- Within ghostscript, one can execute a new file:
-
- (filename.ps) run
-
- 3. Hercules mode exceptions
-
- Commands within ghostscript will be readable on the screen,
- except in hercules screens, where the commands will have to be typed
- "blind". If you get stuck on the graphics screen in hercules (e.g.
- if you exit with a control-c), type
-
- textmode
-
- to return to a text screen.
-
- 4. Fonts
-
- This distribution contains only the "ugly" font. All the
- other fonts can be obtained by anonymous ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu in
- pub/gnu, or simtel in the following files: gs22fnta.zip,
- gs22fntb.zip, gs22fntc.zip, gs22fntd.zip, gs22fnte.zip in directory
- pd1:<msdos.postscript>.
-
- Best of luck... nate liskov nate@lcs.mit.edu
-
- PS. My only contribution is the compilation of this archive and the
- textmode.com program.