Commercial alternative to Ghostscript?
Tim Collins
: Does anyone know of a commercial alternative to Ghostscript. I need to
: view and print postscript from DOS or windows (preferably windows) to an
: HP compatible OKIDATA printer. I have heard theree may be a commercial
: program calleed "Goscript"
: It would be worth some $$ to have a owners manual and a more user
: friendly interface.
What's wrong with Ghostview for Windows? I don't use it (I'm a UNIX
and Mac person), but It may be what you're after.
: Any help would be greatly appreciated.
: Regards
: fran...@netcom.com
Tim.
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Timothy L D Collins | phy...@gps.leeds.ac.uk
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Kielhorn
: Jane Francone (fran...@netcom.com) wrote:
: : Does anyone know of a commercial alternative to Ghostscript. I need to
: : view and print postscript from DOS or windows (preferably windows) to an
: : HP compatible OKIDATA printer. I have heard theree may be a commercial
: : program calleed "Goscript"
: : It would be worth some $$ to have a owners manual and a more user
: : friendly interface.
A manual about PostScript or about the Ghostscript implementation?
There came at least a dozent doc-files with my GS (2.6.1)
Printing them is no problem but since i can't grep through
my paper i keep them online:-)
An user friendly interface to print (convert to other formats)
could be a small shell-script (batchfile). An interface to
view ps is GhostView.
: What's wrong with Ghostview for Windows? I don't use it (I'm a UNIX
: and Mac person), but It may be what you're after.
: : Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The c't (german computer magazine) tested some PostScript
Interpreters in the 5/94 or 6/94 issue.
The winner is:
GhostScript!
It had the best implementation and was even faster than some
old PS-printers.
(Even GS on my old Atari is faster than the LaserWriter:-)
The only problems are missing fonts.
The bitmaps supplied with GS are not worth talking about!
(But GS will use all the ATM-fonts in pfb-format you can get!:-)
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Axel Kielhorn
The blue wizard
Jane Francone
view and print postscript from DOS or windows (preferably windows) to an
HP compatible OKIDATA printer. I have heard theree may be a commercial
program calleed "Goscript"
It would be worth some $$ to have a owners manual and a more user
friendly interface.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards
George Cameron
>Does anyone know of a commercial alternative to Ghostscript. I need to
>view and print postscript from DOS or windows (preferably windows) to an
>HP compatible OKIDATA printer. I have heard theree may be a commercial
>program calleed "Goscript"
>
>It would be worth some $$ to have a owners manual and a more user
>friendly interface.
>
under Windows - Ghostscript by itself is not much more than a bare
interpreter. What you almost certainly want is Russell Lang's Ghostview,
which sits on top of Ghostscript and provides all the bells and whistles
and user interface functionality you could ask for, including comprehensive
on-line help.
Documentation for Ghostscript itself would really be the Adobe red and
blue books, since it is just an interpreter - if you wish to give
Ghostscript commands directly, you are just talking postscript. Installation
and setup are the other requirements for documentation, and Ghostscript's
*.doc files are reasonably comprehensive here (in fact they even tell you
about Ghostview!)
You can get gsview (the name of the Windows version of Ghostview) from
ftp.cs.wisc.edu (128.105.8.18) in /pub/ghost, as well as most other
Ghostscript sites. You'll find it as a .zip file I think.
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Dept. BioMedical Physics
Aberdeen University
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Scotland, UK
Magus Company
Jane Francone <fran...@netcom.com> wrote:
>Does anyone know of a commercial alternative to Ghostscript. I need to
>view and print postscript from DOS or windows (preferably windows) to an
>HP compatible OKIDATA printer. I have heard theree may be a commercial
>program calleed "Goscript"
>
Magus (my company) produces a commercial PostScript viewer.
Magus PageTurner costs about $160 (depending on the channel).
It views pages in any order, scales, rotates, searches, annotates,
and more. It is available now for OS/2 2.1, and will be available
for MS Windows in a few months. If you would like more information,
send email to sa...@magus.com.
I hope this is helpful to you.
Kevin Thompson
President, Magus
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