Hello,
Thanks very much for all the feedback I got on PS viewers.
In fact, only a week ago, I downloaded gv 3..5.8, managed to compile it and
it worked fine. I then had to upgrade my gs5.50 to gs6.50 to handle
computer modern type 1 fonts. Now, gv no longer works. It gives
"Postscript interpreter failed on main page".
Of course, one solution is to recompile gs5.50 and switch between the two
when needed. GSVIEW is another solution.
Thanks and kind regards.
George
-----Original Message-----
From: Phil S. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, 26 May 2001 18:46
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PS viewers.
AFAIK, Tim Thiessen's venerable ghostview 1.5 is not being actively worked
on. However, his code base seems to have been actively mined for good ideas
in successors.
I've been using "gv" 3.5.8 by Johannes Plass successfully for a number of
years on Solaris, although it does not seem to have been updated much
recently. You can find it at
http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~plass/gv/
The 2 major free desktop systems have been creating PS viewers to wrap
around ghostscript: KDE has kghostview
http://apps.kde.com/na/2/info/id/497
while Gnome has ggv
http://www.gnome.org/applist/view.php3?name=ggv
These all work pretty well on Linux.
If you're stuck on W2K, then you might want to consider GSView (I haven't
used it, so I can't say for certain). However, it looks pretty good and it
appears to be actively maintained.
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/
HTH.
