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Re: POSTSCRIPT PRINTING


Tage Westlund <tage.westlund@stockholm.mail.telia.com> writes:

> 
> Hej!

Hej på dej!

> My system is Win95 and I have the binary gnuwin32-b18.
> I am not on a network and have no postscript printer, but
> I have a valuable Postscript text file. There is no plain
> text alternative on the web.
....
> compiled so it can control ghostscript to do the viewing and
> printing actions, but #include <X11/...> fails. Do I have to 
> download the whole X11R6 complex of 150 MB? I hesitate!
> 
> Are there other free utilities available for printing in Post-
> script?

Forget about gnuwin32 for this, just go to

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/

and get GSview. It's free, unless you want to distribute it
commercially, in which case there is a license.

[Actually, I think ghostscript can be compiled as a straight
command-line utility by setting switches properly and excluding the X
drivers, but why bother?]

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