Gsview 7.0 Download
Luther Lazaro
Before you can install anything you will need to obtain ghostview and ghostscript programs.It is interesting to note that you cannot run ghostview without ghostscript. To obtainboth Ghost Script and Ghost View create a directory called gsview and a directorycall gs. Then download the following files into there respective directories.
FYI, GsViewPortable produces no post-execution gsview32.ini in %userprofile%, as it should. This is in contrast to the execution of gsview32.exe from w/i LyX, reported under LyXPortable DT8. The suggested LyX fix is reported in that post; it involves configuring LyX to exec GsViewPortable.exe, not gsview32.exe.
You will need a postscript viewer like "ghostscript" to viewpostscript files. I searched using the "archie" search engineavailable at the RU web site (keyword "gsview") and found many siteswhere the software resides. I've sucessfully down-loaded the requisitesoftware for my Windows-95 PC at home from the ftp.cs.umn.edu archive.What would be even nicer is a latex -> html translator or someother such (with typesetting for equations)... oh well.An ftp/web site for MACs has been provided by your classmate AllenOnweller:
- unzip.exe (compression/decompression program)
- gsview14.zip (a bunch of stuff... decompress and read README.GV)
- gs353ini.zip (library files)
- gs353dos.zip (did not load this one for windows)
- gs353os2.zip (did not load this one for windows)
- gs353w32.zip MS-Windows Win32 Aladdin Ghostscript
- gs353win.zip MS-Windows 3.1 Aladdin Ghostscript
- gs353fn1.zip Aladdin Ghostscript font files (did not load these)
Here are the two ftp sites and directories for unzip and gsview:
- ftp.cs.umn.edu -> /pub/typesetting/postscript/aladdin/ (gsviewstuff)
- ftp.cs.umn.edu -> /dept/users/dkim/pc/archive-utility/unzip.exe (decmompression program)
GSview 4.0 has been released and isavailable from the directory
Specific files are:
- gsv40w32.exe Win32 self extracting archive
- gsv40os2.zip OS/2 archive
- gsview-4.0-1.i386.rpm Linux RPM
- gsview-4.0.i386.tar.gz Linux executable
- gsv40src.zip Source archive
By default, GSview is installed in the directory c:\Program Files\Ghostgum, which creates the sub-directories c:\Program Files\Ghostgum\gsview and c:\Program Files\Ghostgum\pstotext. The GSview executable is c:\Program Files\Ghostgum\gsview\gsview32.exe.
Copy gsview, gsview-help, epstool and pstotext to a directory on your search path.Copy gvx*.htm to the directory /usr/share/doc/gsview-N.N.Copy printer.ini to directory /etc/gsview.GSview stores configuration information in $HOME/.gsview.ini.
If you don't like automatic installation programs, it is possible to install GSview and Ghostscript manually.For Ghostscript, read the file gsN.NN\doc\Install.htm. For GSview, read the file gsviewen.hlp
To compile GSview for X11/Unix you need gcc and the GTK+ 1.2 toolkit.Unzip the sources as follows to convert the line endings: unzip -aa gsv49src.zip unzip -o gsv49src.zip "gsview-4.9/binary/*" cd gsview-4.9 cp srcunx/unx.mak Makefile makeGSview may also be available in a tar.gz file which already hasUnix line endings.To install, run make installSee the X11/Unix topic for more noteson X11 GSview.For SunOS or SGI IRIX, uncomment the appropriate lines in the makefile.You also be able to use rpmbuild -ta gsview-4.9.tar.gz
Send bug reports to Russell Lang at Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd, gsview at ghostgum.com.au. When reporting bugs, please include the version number and date of GSview (from the Help About box), the version number of Ghostscript, and the exact wording of any error messages.The text in the "Ghostscript Messages" dialog can be copied to the clipboard and pasted as text (not bitmap please!) into an email message.Do not send me large files (>100k bytes) unless requested.If you get a SYS3175 or GPF, please send the address of the GPF - I can use this to help locate the bug.Please distinguish between bugs in GSview and bugs in Ghostscript,by making sure that the problem only occurs when using GSview,and not when using Ghostscript alone.Don't expect a fast response - the work I'm paid to do has a higherpriority.For a list of known bugs, see ghost/gsview/bugs.htm
The CD-ROM (actually a CD-R) will contain ready to run and ready to install copies of GSview and GPL Ghostscript for Windows and OS/2, plus a number of other PostScript utilities.The CD-ROM will be dispatched by air-mail. This offer is valid until 28 February 2008. If this date haspassed, send mail to gsview at ghostgum.com.au. to find out if the offer is still valid.For more details see the page Copyright, Licensing and RegistrationGSview is copyright by Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd.GSview is distributed with the Aladdin Free Public Licence. This licence is contained in the file LICENCE .
GSview can convert PostScript or PDF file to an editable vectorusing pstoedit in an external DLL. pstoedit is Copyright by Wolfgang Glunz and is licensed withthe GNU Public Licence (GPL). pstoedit is not includedwith GSview. You will need to obtain pstoedit separately from the pstoedit homepage or from ghost/gsview/pstoedit.htm . Source code can be obtained from these sites.
OK managed to get a register code; use it once and hey presto away you go. BUT the code is written o a local gsview.ini which also incorporates named drive letters. Move your USB stick to another host machine where it will very likely be named differently and gsview.ini is suddenly broken -- you have to supply the reg code again. Very VERY annoying; not true portable freeware, at all ...
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