Saturday 18 October 2008

Ghost on Windows

Download and Setup

Download a Windows build of GPL Ghostscript 8.63. It's a 10meg download (most of the memory being taken up by gsdll32.dll which is about 8.6MB). It is written by PDL vendor Artifex software. (PDL = Page Description Language). Also useful to grab is the graphical interface GSView. This install into C:\~PF\Ghostgum. You will need to add the following to your path:

  1. C:\~PF\gs\gs8.63\bin
  2. C:\~PF\Ghostgum\gsview

Error/Info Messages when Opening PS files

  1. Displaying non DSC file - DSC=Document Structuring Conventions, set of instructions Adobe wrote to maintain consistent PostScript language between drivers and platforms.

Learn Postscript

Find out more about PostScript the product and PostScript the language here.

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