Arthur S. Alexion on Sat, 8 Mar 2003 11:24:05 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] PS format / viewing question


On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 11:40, LeRoy Cressy wrote:

> gv ghostview xdvi and there are some more that I have forgotten about. 
> If you don't have any of these you might want to use
> 
> ps2pdf filename.ps filename.pdf and use either xpdf or acroread to view.
> 
> William H. Magill wrote:
> > I recently dug out a couple of old postscript files sent to me by a friend
> > ages ago. 

> > What application SHOULD be able to display and print these? 

ps2pdf is part of the ghostscript package.  If you have ps2pdf, you have
ghostview (gv), and vice versa.

If these programs are not sufficiently backward compatible, and you
don't have the Adobe Acrobat Distiller available, I could convert them
for you with my copy.

-- 
Arthur S. Alexion <arthur@alexion.com>
Arthur S. Alexion LLC

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