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README.GV 1996-01-10
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GSview 1.4 - PostScript previewer. Needs Ghostscript 3.53.
========
Overview
========
PM GSview is a graphical interface for OS/2 Ghostscript.
GSview for Windows is a graphical interface for MS-Windows Ghostscript.
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.
Ghostscript is required, preferably version 3.33 or later.
Features include:
- view pages in arbitrary order (Next, Previous, Goto).
- selectable display resolution.
- page size is automatically selected from DSC comments.
- page size can be selected using the menu.
- orientation is automatically selected from DSC comments.
- orientation can be selected using the menu (Portrait, Landscape).
- print selected pages using Ghostscript.
- extract selected pages to another file.
- copy display bitmap to clipboard.
- save clipboard bitmap as BMP file.
- add bitmap preview to EPS file (Interchange, TIFF or Windows Metafile)
- graphically select bounding box for EPS file.
- extract bitmap preview or postscript from DOS EPS file.
- on-line help.
- free (GSview Free Public Licence).
New features in version 1.1:
- Works with Ghostscript 3.0 (Level 2 PostScript)
- PM GSview (OS/2).
- GSview for Windows Win32s.
- change display depth (bits/pixel).
- added option to ignore DSC comments.
- zoom with right mouse button.
- buttons to change resolution by 1.2 or 1/1.2.
- cursor position displayed in pt, mm or inch.
- extract text from postscript.
- find text.
New features in version 1.2:
- Works under Windows NT 3.5.
- Draw bounding box over image (OS/2 only).
- Works with GS 2.6.1 under MS-Windows, but not recommended.
New features in version 1.3:
- Display PDF files (OS/2 only).
- Works under Windows 95 (see gvcbugs.doc)
- Smaller text in Windows Dialog boxes.
New features in version 1.4:
- Installation program (os2setup, winsetup).
- Uses print queues under OS/2 and Win95/NT.
- Uses gs16spl to talk to 16-bit print queue from Win32s.
- Add user supplied preview (usually WMF) to EPS file.
- Page Offset for printing
PM GSview and GSview for Windows were written by Russell Lang.
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Installation
============
Create four 1.44M floppies containing the following files, or
put them all in the same directory on your hard disk.
Disk 1:
gsview.zip
README.GV
FILE_ID.DIZ
os2setup.exe OS/2 installation program
os2unzip.exe OS/2 INFO-ZIP unzip utility
winsetup.exe MS-Windows installation program
winunzip.exe MS-Windows INFO-ZIP unzip utility
emxrt.zip EMX Run Time library for OS/2.
Disk 2:
gs353ini.zip Aladdin Ghostscript library files
gs353dos.zip MS-DOS 386 Aladdin Ghostscript
Disk 3:
gs353os2.zip OS/2 Aladdin Ghostscript
gs353w32.zip MS-Windows Win32 Aladdin Ghostscript
gs353win.zip MS-Windows 3.1 Aladdin Ghostscript
Disk 4:
gs353fn1.zip Aladdin Ghostscript fonts.
Disk 1 is the contents of gsview14.zip plus the file emxrt.zip obtained
from ftp://ftp-os2.nmsu.edu/os2/unix/emx09b/emxrt.zip.
Disks 2 to 4 are obtained from ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/aladdin/
If using the floppy install method, 7Mbytes of hard disk space is required.
To install from OS/2, run 'os2setup.exe' from disk 1.
To install from MS-Windows, run 'winsetup.exe' from disk 1.
The installation will overwrite any version of GSview or
Aladdin Ghostscript in the destination directories. If you
wish to save your Fontmap file, back it up to another directory.
Make sure that the zip files are transferred in binary mode and
are all present. The install program will not report bad zip files.
If you don't like automatic installation programs, it is
possible to install GSview and Ghostscript manually. See
the Setup topic below for more details.
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Compilation
===========
To compile PM GSview you need IBM NMAKE.EXE and EMX/GCC 0.9b
with emxfix01 or later.
To create the PM GSview online help you need the IBM toolkit.
Copy gvpm.mak to Makefile and edit COMPBASE and EMXPATH as required.
Type 'nmake'
To compile GSview for Windows you need Borland C++ 3.1 or 4.5.
To compile GSview for Windows Win32s you need Borland C++ 4.5.
Copy gvwin.mak to Makefile then edit COMPBASE and WIN32 as required.
Type 'make'.
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Setup
=====
Copy gvpm.exe, gvpm.hlp, gsview.exe, gsview32.exe, gsview.hlp
and gsv16spl.exe to the Ghostscript directory.
Start GSview then select "Options | Configure Ghostscript",
and enter the correct executable and include paths for Ghostscript.
For example:
c:\gs\gsos2.exe
c:\gs;c:\psfonts
PM GSview will run under OS/2 2.1 and OS/2 Warp.
It may run under OS/2 2.0.
PM GSview has been compiled with EMX/GCC 0.9b and requires
the emx 0.9b DLL's. These are available from
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/os2/unix/emx09b/emxrt.zip
GSview for Windows will run under Windows 3.1.
GSview will probably run under Windows 3.0, but you need a special
version of commdlg.dll, shell.dll and winhelp.exe. This version has never
been tested with Windows 3.0. If it works at all consider yourself lucky.
gsview32.exe will work with Ghostscript under Windows 3.1/Win32s,
Windows NT 3.5 or Windows 95, but may have a few problems with the
latter two.
See the on-line help for more details.
The 'Common Problems' topic is worth reading if GSview won't work.
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Bugs
====
Send bug reports to Russell Lang <rjl@aladdin.com>.
(This is an alias provided by Aladdin Enterprises. Russell Lang is not
an employee or agent of Aladdin Enterprises).
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. Ghostscript error
messages can be copied to the clipboard using the system menu of
the Ghostscript text window.
Do not send me large files 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.
Don't expect a fast response - the work I'm paid to do has a higher
priority.
=======
Updates
=======
The latest version of PM GSview and GSview for Windows should
be available from
ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/rjl/gsview*.zip
or by mail (see next section).
A World Wide Web home page for Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview is at
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html
==================================
Copyright, Licensing and Donations
==================================
GSview is copyright by Russell Lang.
GSview is distributed with the GSview Free Public Licence.
This licence is contained in the file LICENCE.
The GSview Free Public Licence does not require any payment to the author;
however the author would welcome any donations to cover costs and time
involved in developing and maintaining GSview. These may be sent to
Russell Lang
12 Princetown Road
MOUNT WAVERLEY VIC 3149
AUSTRALIA
Donations are preferred in Australian dollars because it costs AUS$5
to bank an overseas currency cheque.
If the donation is over AUS$40 or US$40 then the author will mail
the next update to you on a 3.5" HD disk (it won't fit on my 5.25" DD),
provided you supply the information below.
Updates are not likely to be frequent.
Please accompany donations with the following information:
Your name.
Your postal address.
Your email address (if you have one).
Version number of GSview.
Where you obtained or heard about GSview.
Version number of Ghostscript.
Donation amount and currency.
Do you want updates to be mailed to you on disk?
The ps.c module is copyright by Tim Theisen and is covered by the
licence in the file PUBLIC.
GSview uses Ghostscript to display the contents of the PostScript
files. Ghostscript is a separate program from GSview; it is
written and owned by Aladdin Enterprises, not by Russell Lang.
Aladdin Ghostscript comes with a licence that is more restrictive than
the GNU Licence; in particular, it restricts the distribution of
Aladdin Ghostscript in commercial contexts. Please see the file PUBLIC
that accompanies Aladdin Ghostscript for more details.
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Acknowledgements
================
Tim Theisen, who wrote Ghostview for X11 which provided the inspiration
for PM GSview and GSview for Windows. Also for permission to use his
ps.c module from Ghostview.
L. Peter Deutsch, for writing Ghostscript and for making changes to
Ghostscript to support GSview for Windows.
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