At 06:29 08/22/02, Yakymakha L. Olexandr wrote:
>Which prog works with *.ps files?

*.ps files are Postscript files.

PostScript is a (machine independent) page description language
originally developed by Adobe for use by laser printers. (Complex
graphics and equations can be represented in text format using
Postscript statements.) Scientific and technical documents used
to be stored on computers almost exclusively in Postscript format.
While such documents are still usually available as PS files,
most are now also available for download as Acrobat or HTML files.

To actually view part or all of a postscript file, or print it
on a non postscript printer, a Postscript interpreter is required.
The best one is probably Ghostscript. <http://www.ghostscript.com/>
AFPL Ghostscript <http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/get704.htm>
is available for DOS, Windows, OS/2, Linux, and the Macintosh.
(GNU Ghostscript is available for use with Unix systems.)

Since Ghostscript is a command line interpreter, a graphical
front end like GSview
<http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/index.htm> is used
in combination with Ghostscript.

Since most of us are running some 32 bit version of Microsoft
Windows, we would need the Windows version of Ghostscript 7.04
<ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/AFPL/gs704/gs704w32.exe>
and the Windows version of GSview 4.3
<ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/ghostgum/gsv43w32.exe>.
Download both files, put them in a directory together and execute
gsv43w32.exe. The rest of the installation happens automatically.

The full release of Adobe Acrobat comes with a module called
Distiller which converts Postscript files to Acrobat files.

Regards,
Bill

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