Top Document: SGI apps Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Previous Document: -13- How can I convert ASCII to PostScript? Next Document: -15- How can I edit PostScript files? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge In one of two ways: Display Postscript (DPS) comes with IRIX 5.x. (Machines which came with IRIX 4.0.1-4.0.4 didn't get DPS in later versions of IRIX 4.x, but it is standard in 5.x.) It includes the 'xpsview' viewer. The DPS developer's option, which you need to write or build programs which exploit DPS, costs extra. Ghostscript is free from Aladdin Software and the Free Software Foundation; ghostview (a viewer which uses ghostscript) is likewise free from the FSF. Original sources are in ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/pub/ghost/, and Robert Keller of SGI <rck@fangio.asd.sgi.com> has put a compiled, 'inst'-installable package at ftp://ftp.sgi.com/sgi/ghost/. Dale Atems <atems@physics.wayne.edu> points out: Many people try ghostscript and give it up because of the fonts. There is something about ghostscript that's not as widely known as it should be and deserves emphasis: if you have SGI's Display Postscript, you can forget about most of the ugly bitmap fonts that come with ghostscript. Edit your Fontmap file to point ghostscript to the DPS outline fonts (in /usr/lib/DPS/outline/base) and it will use them instead. This will improve both screen display and, if you're not using a Postscript printer with those fonts already built in, printing quality. [Editor's note: This seems to cause problems with some files under IRIX 5.x. Any details?] User Contributions:Top Document: SGI apps Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Previous Document: -13- How can I convert ASCII to PostScript? Next Document: -15- How can I edit PostScript files? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: sgi-faq@viz.tamu.edu (The SGI FAQ group)
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