GSview 5.01beta PostScript previewer. Needs Ghostscript 7.04 or later.
Release date: 2020-08-23
GSview is a graphical interface for Ghostscript under MS-Windows. 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 - 10.99.0.
Features include:
Changes in version 5.01beta:
GSview was written by Russell Lang at Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd.
First uninstall any previous versions of GSview.
Obtain GSview (gsv50w64.zip) from
http://www.ghostgum.com.au/software/gsview.htm
First install the Ghostscript self extracting archive gs9530w64.exe (or a later version if available) Then open the GSview zip file and run setup.exe. Run GSview.
This version requires that you have a 64-bit x64 processor (AMD64 or EM64T). It will not run on 32-bit Windows.
By default, GSview is installed in the directory c:\Program Files\Ghostgum, which creates the sub-directories c:\Program Files\Ghostgum\gsview and c:\Program Files\Ghostgum\pstotext. The GSview executable is c:\Program Files\Ghostgum\gsview\gsview64.exe.
By default, Ghostscript is installed in the directory c:\Program Files\gs\GS.NN. The Ghostscript executables are c:\Program Files\gs\gsN.NN\gswin64c.exe for console mode and c:\Program Files\gs\gsN.NN\gswin64.exe for windowing mode.
GSview normally locates Ghostscript using registry entries created by the Ghostscript setup program. If these do not exist, GSview will assume that Ghostscript is in an adjacent directory to GSview, usually c:\Program Files\Ghostgum\gsN.NN.
Obtain GSview (gsv50w32.zip) from
http://www.ghostgum.com.au/software/gsview.htm
Obtain Ghostscript (gs9XXw32.exe) from
https://www.ghostscript.com
First install the Ghostscript self extracting archive gs9530w32.exe (or a later version if available) Then open the GSview zip file and run setup.exe. Run GSview.
Make sure that the zip/exe files are transferred in binary mode.
If you don't like automatic installation programs it is possible to install GSview manually. Details are in gsviewen.hlp
If you wish to use install GSview without any prompts, give a destination directory on the command line. For example:
setup "c:\Program Files\ghostgum"
This will not prompt for a destination directory and will overwrite files without asking.
Configuration of GSview will occur the first time it is run.
See the on-line help for more details. The 'Common Problems' topic is worth reading if GSview doesn't work.
To compile GSview for Windows you need Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 and HTML Help workshop 1.3. Copy srcwin/win.mak to Makefile. To build for 64-bit, Start Menu, Visual Studio 2019, x64 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2019, then run nmake WIN64=1 To build for 32-bit, Start Menu, Visual Studio 2019, x64_x86 Cross Tools Command Prompt for VS 2019, then run nmake WIN32=1
Send bug reports to Russell Lang at Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd, gsview at ghostgum.com.au. When reporting bugs, please include the version number and date of GSview (from the Help | About box), the version number of Ghostscript, and the exact wording of any error messages. The text in the "Ghostscript Messages" dialog can be copied to the clipboard and pasted as text (not bitmap please!) into an email message. Do not send me large files (>100k bytes) unless requested. If you get a SYS3175 or GPF, please send the address of the GPF - I can use this to help locate the bug. Please distinguish between bugs in GSview and bugs in Ghostscript, by making sure that the problem only occurs when using GSview, and not when using Ghostscript alone. Don't expect a fast response - the work I'm paid to do has a higher priority.
The home page for Ghostscript is at https://www.ghostscript.com/ and for GSview at http://www.ghostgum.com.au/
Ghostscript can be downloaded from the Internet.
To download, go to the Ghostscript home page then follow the Download link.
GSview is copyright by Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd. GSview is distributed with the GNU General Public Licence. This licence is contained in the file LICENCE .
GSview uses Ghostscript to display the contents of the PostScript files. Ghostscript is a separate program from GSview; it is owned by Artifex Software Inc., not by Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd.
GSview uses pstotext in an external DLL. pstotext was written by Andrew Birrell and Paul McJones. It is Copyright (C) 1995-1996, Digital Equipment Corporation. See the licence in pstotext.txt or pstotext.zip for more details. If you do not agree to the pstotext licence, delete pstotext.zip, pstotxt2.dll and pstotxt3.dll. See http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/virtualpaper/pstotext.html
GSview can convert PostScript or PDF file to an editable vector using pstoedit in an external DLL. pstoedit is Copyright by Wolfgang Glunz and is licensed with the GNU General Public Licence (GPL). pstoedit is not included with GSview. You will need to obtain pstoedit separately from the pstoedit homepage http://www.pstoedit.net/pstoedit
GSview uses zlib 1.2.3 in an external DLL. zlib is Copyright (C) 1995-2005 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler. See http://www.zlib.net/
GSview uses bzip2 in an external DLL. bzip2 is Copyright 1996-2006 by Julian Seward. See http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/
The installation programs may use an unzip decompression library (DLL) by the Info-ZIP group. The original sources are freely available from ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/
GSPRINT is a command line tool for printing using Windows GDI printer drivers. This is included with GSview.
EPSTOOL is a command line tool for adding and removing previews from EPS files.
L. Peter Deutsch, for writing Ghostscript and for making changes to Ghostscript to support GSview.
Tim Theisen, who wrote Ghostview for X11 which provided the inspiration for GSview.
Paul McJones and Andrew Birrell of DEC, for making pstotext available and making changes to it for use with GSview.
Thomas Pfeiffer and Mrs. Stefanie Kolweyh for translating GSview into German/Deutsch. Thomas Hoffmann for updates.
Cyrille Chevallet for translating GSview into French/Fran�ais.
Antonio Guadagnin for translating GSview into Italian/Italiano.
Pascual Lucas for translating GSview into Spanish/Espa�ol.
Stamos Mylonas for translating GSview into Greek/Ellenika.
Kris Steenhaut for translating GSview into Dutch/Nederlands.
Oleg Bondar for translating GSview into Russian.
Björn Söderström for translating GSview into Swedish/Svenska.
Juo Verut for translating GSview into Slovak.