GSview 4.0

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Obtaining GSview

GSview 4.0 has been released and is available from the directory ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/ghostgum/
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

GSview requires AFPL Ghostscript. You must download AFPL Ghostscript separately. See Obtaining AFPL Ghostscript 7.00. For Win32, obtain and install Ghostscript, then run the GSview self extracting archive gsv40w32.exe. For OS/2, unzip gsv40os2.zip then read the GSview Readme.htm file.

Features

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 AFPL Ghostscript 7.00-7.99.

Features include:

Display and print PostScript and PDF files.
View pages in arbitrary order (Next, Previous, Goto).
Page size and Orientation are automatically selected from DSC comments or can be selected using the menu.
Print selected pages using Ghostscript.
Convert pages to bitmap, PDF or PostScript.
Selectable display resolution, depth, alpha.
Single button zoom.
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.
Can read gzip and bzip2 compressed PostScript and PDF files.
On-line help.
Win32, OS/2 and Linux/X11 executables. Older versions support Win16.
Can be run directly off a CD-ROM.
English, German, French, Italian and Spanish languages.
Per user initialisation files for Windows.
Includes setup program.
Free (Aladdin Free Public Licence).
Works with AFPL Ghostscript 7.00 - 7.99 (GSview checks the Ghostscript version number). Older version of GSview will work with Ghostscript 4.03 - 6.50.

Changes in version 4.0:

Uses new Ghostscript API on Windows, OS/2 and Linux.
pstoedit for OS/2.
Bug fixes:
- Anti-aliased display is now the default.
- File | Convert now processes only the requested pages.
See gvcnews.txt in the GSview sources for more detailed change notes.

GSview was written by Russell Lang at Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd.

GSview 4.0 should be used with AFPL Ghostscript 7.00 or later. See the release announcement

For post-release notes on GSview, see known problems and bugs.

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Updated 2001-06-02 by Russell Lang