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README.TXT 1998-09-17
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GSview 2.6 - PostScript previewer. Needs Ghostscript 5.50.
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Overview
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GSview is a graphical interface for Ghostscript under MS-Windows
or OS/2. 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.
GSview requires Ghostscript 4.03 - 5.99.
Features include:
- View pages in arbitrary order (Next, Previous, Goto).
- Selectable display resolution, depth, alpha.
- Page size is automatically selected from DSC comments
or can be selected using the menu.
- Orientation can be automatically selected from DSC comments
or can be selected using the menu (Portrait, Landscape).
- Single button zoom.
- Print selected pages using Ghostscript.
A page offset can be applied.
- Extract selected pages to another file.
- Copy display bitmap to clipboard.
- Save clipboard bitmap as BMP file.
- Add bitmap or user preview to EPS file
(Interchange, TIFF or Windows Metafile)
- Graphically select and show bounding box for EPS file.
- Extract bitmap preview or postscript from DOS EPS file.
- Extract text or search for text.
- Display PDF files.
- Can read gzip compressed PostScript and PDF files.
- On-line help.
- OS/2, Win16 and Win32 executables.
- Can be run directly off a CD-ROM.
- German and French translations.
- Per user initialisation files for Windows.
- Installation program for GSview and Ghostscript
in English, French and German.
- Free (GSview Free Public Licence).
- Works with Aladdin Ghostscript 4.03 - 5.99 (GSview checks the
Ghostscript version number).
Changes in version 2.6:
- Redisplay changed document when GSview activated.
- A handful of bug fixes.
- See gvcnews.txt in the GSview sources for more detailed change
notes.
GSview was written by Russell Lang.
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Installation
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If you have the self extracting archive gsv26550.exe, run it.
This contains GSview 2.6 and Aladdin Ghostscript 5.50 for Win32.
Otherwise, create three 1.44M floppies containing the following files, or
put them all in the same directory on your hard disk.
Disk 1:
For Win32, unzip gsv25w32.zip
README.TXT (this file)
LICENCE
FILE_ID.DIZ
README32.TXT
win32.zip
setup.exe Installation program
setp32de.dll German language resources
setp32fr.dll French language resources
wizunz32.dll Info-ZIP unzip utility
For Win16, unzip gsv25w16.zip
README.TXT (this file)
LICENCE
FILE_ID.DIZ
README16.TXT
win16.zip
setup16.exe Installation program
setp16de.dll German language resources
setp16fr.dll French language resources
wizunz16.dll Info-ZIP unzip utility
For OS/2, unzip gsv25os2.zip
README.TXT (this file)
LICENCE
FILE_ID.DIZ
README2.TXT
os2.zip
os2setup.exe Installation program
setup2de.dll German language resources
setup2fr.dll French language resources
unzip2.dll Info-ZIP unzip utility
Disk 2:
gs550ini.zip Aladdin Ghostscript library files
PLUS
gs550w32.zip MS-Windows Win32 Aladdin Ghostscript
OR
gs550os2.zip OS/2 Aladdin Ghostscript
(for Windows 3.1/Win16 use gs403ini.zip plus gs403win.zip)
(The last 16-bit version of Aladdin Ghostscript was 4.03)
Disk 3:
gs510fn1.zip Aladdin Ghostscript fonts.
Disk 1 is the contents of gsv25w32.zip or gsv25w16.zip or gsv25os2.zip
(all of which are contained in gsview25.zip).
Disks 2 and 3 are obtained from ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/aladdin/
If using the floppy install method, 10 Mbytes of hard disk space is
required.
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 Ghostscript fonts are used by Ghostscript alone. Your system
Fonts folder will not be modified.
To install from OS/2, run 'os2setup.exe' from disk 1.
If you do not already have EMX isntalled on your system, you will
also need a Disk 4:
emxrt.zip EMX Run Time library (OS/2 only).
from ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/os2/emx09c/emxrt.zip
or ftp://ftp-os2.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/emx/v0.9c/emxrt.zip
For Windows NT or Windows 95, run 'setup.exe' from disk 1.
If you get a "Can't open DDE connection to Program Manager"
message, your system is corrupted. Reboot Windows then try again.
For MS-Windows 3.1, it is recommended that you use the
Win32 version. You must have Win32s installed before
installing GSview. See http://www.microsoft.com/ or
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/softlib/mslfiles/PW1118.EXE
GSview and Ghostscript will not work with some versions
of Win32s. If it doesn't work with your version, try
updating to a later version of Win32s. Some computers
will work with Win32s v1.15, others will not.
To install from MS-Windows, run 'setup.exe' from disk 1.
If you wish to use the slower 16-bit version, install
using 'setup16.exe' from gsv25w16.zip.
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.
If you wish to use install GSview without any prompts, give
a destination directory on the command line. For example:
setup c:\gstools
This will not prompt for a destination directory and will
overwrite files without asking.
Configuration of GSview will occur the first time it is run.
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Other Languages
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English:
Brief instructions for non-English language readers.
Obtain the files listed in the section above titled "Installation".
Run setup.exe (MS-Windows) or os2setup.exe (OS/2).
If running a non-English version of MS-Windows, you will be prompted
to select "English", "Deutsch" or "Français".
After installing, run GSview.
You may change the language later with
"Options | Language" or "Optionen | Sprache" or "Options | Langue"
Deutsch: ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1)
Kurze Beschreibung für deutsche Leser.
Besorgen Sie sich bitte die Dateien, die in dem obigen Abschnitt
"Installation" aufgeführt sind.
Starten Sie setup.exe (MS-Windows) oder os2setup.exe (OS/2).
Wenn Sie eine Version von Windows haben, die nicht Englisch ist,
so werden Sie dazu aufgefordert zwischen "English", "Deutsch" und
"Französisch" zu wählen.
Nach der Installation starten Sie einfach GSview.
Später können Sie die Sprache ändern durch
"Options | Language" oder "Optionen | Sprache" oder "Options | Langue"
Français : ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1)
Quelques explications pour les lecteurs francophones :
Procurez-vous les fichiers indiqués dans le paragraphe
"Installation" ci-dessus.
Lancez setup.exe (MS-Windows) ou os2setup.exe (OS/2).
Cliquez plusieurs fois de suite sur le bouton "Next>" puis sur
le bouton "Finish>" et enfin sur le bouton "Exit".
Lancez GSview.
Si votre version de Windows n'est pas une version anglaise, un choix
concernant la langue de GSview vous sera proposé. Vous pourrez alors
choisir entre le français, l'anglais et l'allemand.
Si ce choix ne vous est pas proposé, configurez GSview (cliquez
sur les boutons "Next>", "Finish>" et "Exit") puis sélectionnez la
langue en utilisant la commande 'Options' | 'Language'.
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Compilation
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To compile GSview for OS/2 you need IBM NMAKE.EXE and EMX/GCC 0.9c.
To create the GSview online help