deutsch@parcplace.com (Peter Deutsch) (01/16/91)
Archive-name: postscript/interpreter/ghostscript/1991-01-11 Archive: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/ghostscript-2.1* [18.71.0.38] Original-posting-by: deutsch@parcplace.com (Peter Deutsch) Original-subject: PostScript previewer for Sun Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) Ghostscript, a piece of GNU software available from the Free Software Foundation, is a no-charge P*stScr*pt previewer that runs on a very wide variety of Unix systems, including Sun-3 and Sun-4 under either SunView or X Windows. It is also known to run on DECstations, on VAXen under both Ultrix and VMS, and under MS-DOS on any IBM PC or compatible with EGA or VGA display. (It will probably run on just about any Unix + X system, since it is carefully written to be very portable -- the same source code compiles on all of the above machines, with essentially no #ifs or #ifdefs in any .c file.) It handles monochrome, gray scale, and color, and can work equally well with its own rather mediocre fonts, with Adobe (Type 1) fonts, and with user-written (Type 3) fonts. I believe the performance of the most recent release is better than either ralpage or xps, but I haven't tested them myself. The source files of the current release, including a small amount of documentation, are available on prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/ghostscript-2.1*; they will compile with either cc or gcc. If you have further questions, please send e-mail to ghost@aladdin.com.