Re: postscript previewer

[Randall R Schulz <rrschulz at cris dot com>]

Dario,

Well, if non-Cygwin solution is acceptable, then the preferred 
alternative is GSView.

There are quite a few PostScript files out there that are not well 
handled by ps2pdf, the resulting PDF file being acceptable for printing 
but not for on-screen viewing. I don't know what goes wrong, but it has 
something to do with fonts and encodings. Another symptom is that 
copying text from the converted PDF gives gibberish, not the text that 
appeared in the document displayed by Acrobat Reader. LIkewise, 
searches in these odd PDF files fail, unless you can type the same 
bizarre characters that are put in the clipboard when you copy from 
such a PDF file.

I don't know what issues underlie these symptoms, but they're common 
enough in my experience. In fact, tons of papers downloaded from 
CiteSeer in PDF format have this problem. I've had the same thing 
happen with one of the on-line PostScript to PDF translation services. 
Given the similarity of the symptoms, I'm guessing my Cygwin 
installation, CiteSeer and the on-line translation service are all 
using the same or nearly the same ps2pdf program for translation.

(Tip for CiteSeer users: Use the left-most file format in the list of 
available downloads in the upper-right area of the document index page. 
This is the paper's native format, the others having been converted 
from that file. Most of the time, at least for the papers I download 
which are produced by mathematicians and logicians who are actually 
writing TeX or LaTeX, this is PostScript).

Randall Schulz


At 07:56 2003-04-08, you wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 04:07:34PM +0200, Schade Dr., Lars wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >   I am searching for a postscript previewer under cygwin (to look
> > at GMT output). Since I did not manage to build gv or gsview I was
> > wondering whether others succeeded or might have a useful
> > suggestion as to what tool I could use to preview postscript files.
> > Any ideas out there?
>
> Well, what I do is use ps2pdf to generate a PDF file, and then I view it
> using Adobe Acrobat Reader.  Works fine for me.
>
> --
> Dario Alcocer


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