GSview 4.8

Obtaining GSview

GSview 4.8 has been released and is available from the directory ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/ghostgum/
Specific files are:

gsv48w32.exe Win32 self extracting archive
gsv48w64.exe Win64 (x86_64) self extracting archive
gsv48os2.zip OS/2 archive
gsv48src.zip Source archive
gsview-4.8.tar.gz Linux source archive
gsview-4.8-1.i386.rpm Linux RPM x86 (built on Fedora Core 3)
gsview-4.8-1.x86_64.rpm Linux RPM x86_64 (built on Fedora Core 3)

GSview requires Ghostscript. You must download Ghostscript separately. See Obtaining AFPL Ghostscript 8.53.
For Windows, obtain and install Ghostscript, then run the GSview self extracting archive gsv48w32.exe (or gsv48w64.exe on Win64).
For OS/2, unzip gsv48os2.zip then read the GSview Readme.htm file.

Features

GSview is a graphical interface for Ghostscript under MS-Windows or OS/2. 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. GSview requires Ghostscript 7.04-9.19.

Features include:

Display and print PostScript and PDF files.
View pages in arbitrary order (Next, Previous, Goto).
Page size and Orientation are automatically selected from DSC comments or can be selected using the menu.
Print selected pages using Ghostscript.
Convert pages to bitmap, PDF or PostScript.
Selectable display resolution, depth, alpha.
Single button zoom.
Extract selected pages to another file.
Copy display bitmap to clipboard.
Save clipboard bitmap as BMP file.
Add bitmap or user preview to EPS file (Interchange, TIFF or Windows Metafile)
Graphically select and show bounding box for EPS file.
Extract bitmap preview or PostScript from DOS EPS file.
Extract text or search for text.
Can read gzip and bzip2 compressed PostScript and PDF files.
On-line help.
Win32, OS/2 and Linux/X11 executables. Older versions support Win16.
Can be run directly off a CD-ROM.
English, Catalan, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish and Swedish languages.
Per user initialisation files for Windows.
Includes setup program.
Free (Aladdin Free Public Licence).
Works with Ghostscript 7.04 - 9.99 (GSview checks the Ghostscript version number). There are older versions of GSview that will work with Ghostscript 4.03 - 7.00.

Changes in version 4.8:

Minor bug fixes.

GSview was written by Russell Lang at Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd.

GSview 4.8 should be used with Ghostscript 8.53 or later. See the 8.53 release announcement

For post-release notes on GSview, see known problems and bugs.

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Updated 2006-02-25 by Russell Lang