Top Document: comp.windows.x Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 5/7 Previous Document: 102) Where can I get X-based project-management software? Next Document: 104) Where can I get an X-based GKS package? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Ghostscript is distributed by the Free Software Foundation and includes a PostScript interpreter and a library of graphics primitives. Version 2.6.2 is now available; version 3.0 will include a full implementation of PostScript Level 2. Sources are on ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/ (pick up ghostscript-fonts-2.6.2.tar.gz as well). Related goodies are at ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/gnu/ . [6/96] GhostView (by Tim Theisen, tim@cs.wisc.edu) is full-function user interface for GhostScript. Sources are on ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/ and ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu//ghost/gnu/ghostview-1.5.tar.gz binaries for various architectures are at ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/gnu/ghostview-exe/ . GSPreview (by the Computing Laboratory of the University of Kent at Canterbury) is an X user interface (WCL-based) to the Ghostscript 2.4-2.6 interpreter. The source is available for anonymous ftp from ftp.x.org as gspreview.2.4.tar.Z [9/94] or from ftp://unix.hensa.ac.uk/misc/unix/gspreview/ which outdates ftp://ftp.x.org/R5contrib/ . XPsView (by Francois Bourdoncle, bourdoncle@prl.dec.com) is a Motif wrapper around PsView, which is a X11 DSC Document viewer that can use both XDPS and GhostScript as the interpreter engine. An early version was an the Alpha Freeware CD. More recent versions, which include batch translation of PostScript files into PPM files, are on http://www.ensmp.fr/~bourdonc . This software is "postcardware", that is, if you like it, you are kindly requested to send the author a postcard. Version 1.47 is current as of 10/96. Also [commercial products not recently confirmed]: ScriptWorks is Harlequin's software package for previewing and printing PostScript(R) descriptions of text and graphics images; previewers for X are available. For information call +44-223-872522 or send email to scriptworks-request@harlqn.co.uk. Image Network's Xps supports the full PostScript language and renders in color, grayscale, or monochrome. Fonts displayed are anti-aliased. Info: Image Network, +1 415 967 0542. Digital's dxpsview runs on UWS 2.1 and 2.2. Sun's pageview runs with the X11/NeWS server. Showpage, the PostScript previewer from Adobe Systems, is available from ICS as part of the Display PostScript System for Sun Solaris 1 (SunOS). More information is available from ICS at info@ics.com, or +1 617 621 0060, or Fax at +1 617 621 9555, http://www.ics.com . User Contributions:Top Document: comp.windows.x Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 5/7 Previous Document: 102) Where can I get X-based project-management software? Next Document: 104) Where can I get an X-based GKS package? Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Part4 - Part5 - Part6 - Part7 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: faq%craft@uunet.uu.net (X FAQ maintenance address)
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