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From: juices@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Michael A Guttman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: postscript viewer
Keywords: wanted
Message-ID: <7254@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 22 Dec 90 06:22:24 GMT
References: <1990Dec20.112854.15314@oracle.com>
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University
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In article <1990Dec20.112854.15314@oracle.com> ricks@berkeley.edu writes:
>
>In article <1990Dec18.110425.12071@fwi.uva.nl>, groenewo@fwi.uva.nl
>(Ferry van het Groenewoud) writes:
>|> Does anyone know where I can ftp a public domain Postscript viewer?
>|> Does such a thing actually exist?
>|> 
>
>Ghostscript 2.0 is our best bet. Ghostscript is a postscript interpreter that
>runs under X11 - Ghostscript comes from the Free Software Foundation (gnu) so
>it is of a high standard.
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I think they've produced some kludgy stuff
                          along with some good packages.
>
>I do not know where you can ftp it from, I am sure somebody else will know. 
>
>Dave


I installed ghostscript 2.0 on our IBM-RS/6000 and I'm not very
impressed with it.  All it does is display the page in one size (no
zoom) and wait for you to hit <CR> to advance to the next page.  
No bells, no whistles.

I know I'm spoiled on Pageview which runs on our Sun's with
Openwindows.  This is much nicer.

You can get ghostscript from prep.ai.mit.edu.

Mike