re viewing postscript files under x windows in article sk rinnptb polaris isi com kin isi com kin cho writes i wonder if anybody know of a x window based postscript file viewer that runs under sunos prefered hpux or ibm aix reason i m looking for this utility is that i ve downloaded these large postscript documents and i d like to know how useful and how long they are before commiting them to the printer and potentially wasting pages of paper and hogging the printer for hour get ghostscript and ghostview ghostview is a postscript previewer that uses ghostscript from the ghostview readme ghostview an x user interface for ghostscript ghostview is full function user interface for ghostscript brief list of features ghostview parses any known version of adobe s document structuring conventions page size is automatically determined from the document structuring comments the user is able to override the values from the comments window size is set to the bounding box for encapsulated postscript figures default page size is letter and can be changed via xresources or application defaults file to a or any other valid size for our european friends scrollbars appear when necessary page orientation is automatically determined from the document structuring comments the user is able to override the values from the comments ability to view at orientations portrait landscape upside down and seascape for those who rotate landscape the other direction ability to preview in any supported visual can preview in gray scale or color on a color monitor ability to mark pages for printing or saving good for people that printed a page document and lost page due to a printer jam can popup zoom windows at printer resolution display dot printer dot the ghostview distribution includes a ghostview widget that people are encouraged to use in other programs ghostview is available via anonymous ftp from prep ai mit edu pub gnu ghostview tar z appenzell cs wisc edu pub ghostview tar z from the ghostscript readme this file describes version of ghostscript an overview of ghostscript ghostscript is the name of a set of software that provides an interpreter for the ghostscript language which very closely resembles the postscript tm language and a set of c procedures the ghostscript library that implement the graphics capabilities that appear as primitive operations in the ghostscript language the ghostscript language interpreter and library are written entirely in c with some assembly language accelerators for ms dos platforms currently ghostscript is known to run on the following platform families ibm pc and compatibles with ega vga supervga or compatible graphics under ms dos or a wide variety of unix systems using x windows version release and including sun sun sun i sun sparcstation generic machines running ix h p and decstation and vax running ultrix sequent symmetry convex c and c tektronix sgi iris indigo sun workstations sun sparc sun i running sunview vax vms with x r gcc and dec c compiler dec c compiler version or later is required get ghostscript from the same ftp site you get ghostview tim williams com night vision electronic sensors directorate dsn amsel rd nv vispd williams fax ft belvoir va e mail williams nvl army mil
