Ghostview

Ghostview is an X11 user interface for Ghostscript, allowing you to view and navigate PostScript files.

There are several derivatives of Ghostview that are now in common use.

GV

GV is a version of Ghostview with an improved user interface and the ability to display PDF files.

Documentation is at http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~plass/gv/ It is available from ftp://ftpthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/pub/gv/

MGv

MGv is Motif based front end to GhostScript based on Ghostview 1.5.

GSview

A similar program called GSview is available for use under Linux/X11, Windows and OS/2. This is not a derivative of Ghostview.

Ghostview (the original)

Ghostview is full function X11 user interface for ghostscript 2.4 and later.

Brief list of features:

• Ghostview parses any known version of Adobe's Document Structuring Conventions.
• Page size is automatically determined from the Document Structuring Comments. The user is able to override the values from the comments.
• Window size is set to the bounding box for Encapsulated PostScript figures.
• Default page size is Letter and can be changed via Xresources or application defaults file to A4 (or any other valid size) for our European friends.
• Scrollbars appear when necessary.
• Page orientation is automatically determined from the Document Structuring Comments. The user is able to override the values from the comments.
• Ability to view at 4 orientations: Portrait, Landscape, Upside-down, and Seascape (for those who rotate landscape the other direction).
• Ability to restrict rendering to grayscale or monochrome. (Requires ghostscript 2.6.1.)
• Ability to mark pages for printing, or saving. (Good for people that printed a 100 page document and lost page 59 due to a printer jam.)
• Can popup zoom windows at printer resolution (1 display dot = 1 printer dot).

Ghostview is available from ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/gnu/ghostview/.

Ghostview was written by Tim Theisen <ghostview@cs.wisc.edu>.

The most frequently asked question about Ghostview is why Ghostscript stops with the message gs: Malformed ghostview color property. This is due to a bug in GNU Ghostscript 2.6.1. Apply the four patches available from ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/gnu/gs261/ghostscript-2.6.1.fix-0*.tar.gz
or get GNU Ghostscript 2.6.2.