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- Short: Ghostscript4.03 data archive, get a bin archive
- Author: GS(Aladdin)/Amiga(Olaf Barthel)/Steffen Opel)/Port(me)
- Uploader: JoopvandeWege@mail.mococo.nl
- Type: gfx/show
-
- This is the Amiga port of Ghostscript4.03. Ghostscript is a Postscript
- interpreter with support for Level 2 PS and PDF. This release includes
- most popular printers and fileformats including an updated Amiga display
- driver.
-
- Features:
- Ghostscript supports three Amiga specific devices (but see below for ILBM):
- amiga Amiga Workbench window
- amiga_custom Amiga custom screenmodes
- amiga_printer Amiga printer.device
- (redesign done by Steffen Opel opel@sto.isdn.uni-mannheim.de)
-
- The device 'amiga' opens an Intuition window on the Workbench screen to
- display the image. Its usage should be pretty obvious.
-
- The device 'amiga_custom' opens a Customscreen to display the image. This
- allows any Display Mode available in the screenmode preferences to be used
- with Ghostscript too.
-
- The device 'amiga_printer' is a convenient alternative for the printer devices
- provided by Ghostscript itself. It facilitates standard Amiga printing via the
- Workbench printer drivers and respects most settings in the graphics
- preferences as described in the Workbench documentation.
-
- All three devices are supporting -g and -r as described in 'use.txt'.
-
- Ghostscript currently has only limited support for IFF ILBM files:
- amiga_ilbm IFF ILBM file format
-
- The device 'amiga_ilbm' works like any other Ghostscript raster file or
- printer device (i.e. pbm), see 'Choosing the output device' above on how
- to specify an output file.
- It supports dithered grayscale only and is not portable to other platforms
- because it uses iffparse.library. A portable implementation with color
- support is currently under development.
-
- This port requires:
- - An Amiga equipped Kickstart 2.04 or higher.
- - Approx. 4.7 MBytes of hard disk space available.
- - A minimum of 1 MByte of chip memory, depending on what you want to do
- with the interpreter. Printer output requires at least 2 MBytes of
- contiguous memory (any memory, not necessarily chip memory).
- - A bunch of Postscript/Ghostscript fonts.
-
- Comments/Suggestions/Bugs to:
- JoopvandeWege@mail.mococo.nl
- Please use a Subject field with the name 'GS403' in it.
- Please direct all mail to me except when you're 100% sure it is a GS
- problem then you can use the Aladdin email address.
-
- Joop van de Wege
-
-
- Getting Ghostscript.
- Download one of the binary archives which match your CPU. It contains
- one binary.You might need a patch which is only needed if:
- - you have an 040
- - and Kickstart 3.1
- - and are *NOT* running one of the 040 binaries.
- - and you are *NOT* using the latest 'setpatch'.
- (it fixes a couple of bugs in 3.1. The symptoms are GURU 8..0B. If you get
- them then you need SetMathPatch, probably. Read the docs of SetMathPatch)
-
- How to use Ghostscript.
- - Unpack the archive gs403data.lha to a suitable HD with enough room (~3.5M).
- for example 'Work:'.
- A directory 'Ghostscript' will be created and all files needed are found
- within this directory (Work:Ghostscript).
- - Unpack one of the special binary archives to the same HD and the executable
- will automatically be placed in the same directory (Work:Ghostscript/gs_000).
- Further do:
- - Assign Ghostscript: Work:Ghostscript
- - path Ghostscript: add
- (Optionally, rename the binary gs_xxx to 'gs')
- Now you can call 'gs' from anywhere with or without arguments. If you add
- the above fragment (Assign ... add) to your s:user-startup then it will
- available everytime you start your computer
- - Unpack gs403fonts-std.lha, if you don't have a set of good quality
- postscript fonts. The advantage of using this archive is that you don't
- need to mess with the file 'Fontmap'. The fonts will be placed in
- 'Work:Ghostscript/fonts'.
- Or if you already have postscript fonts, do the following:
- - Assign PSFonts: to your postscript font directory (anywhere)
- - create file PSFonts:FONTMAP with at least the following entries:
-
- % fontmap aka Fontmap
- % ----------------------------------------------------------------
- /Times-Roman (ptmr.gsf) ;
- /Times-Italic (ptmri.gsf) ;
- /Times-Bold (ptmb.gsf) ;
- /Times-BoldItalic (ptmbi.gsf) ;
-
- It does not matter, which font files are assigned (see below)
-
- - entries within the FONTMAP file at PSFonts: must follow the
- scheme described below:
-
- /Fontname (Filename) ;
-
- for example
-
- /Helvetica (Helvet.pfb) ;
-
- which means, the corresponding files must actually exist.
- But one also my substitute Fonts symbolically by other fonts,
- like for example:
-
- /Helvetica_Bold /Helvetica ;
-
- - the variables in ENV: and ENVARC: must look as follows:
-
- Variable Content Remark
-
- GS_FONTPATH do not set: delete this one!!
- GS_LIB PSFonts:
- GS_OPTIONS set it, but keep it empty
- GS_DEVICE amiga for example (its the default)
-
-
- See the 'Ghostscript/docs/use.txt' directory for more information, like
- commandline options. Some notes:
- - Watch out for case sensitivity when using commandline options, -sOutputFile
- is not equal to -soutputfile !!!!!
- - Set your stack high enough, 32000 bytes should do it (stack 32000).
-
- Some very useful commandlines with comments in ():
- gs -h (outputs small help on most important arguments, and lists all availble
- output devices)
- gs (gs opens window on WB and use its palette, use 256color WB if possible,
- there is a problem with NewIcons, it looks like all palette entries are
- reserved by NewIcons so GS will only display in B/W if you use NewIcons)
- gs -sDEVICE=png16m (uses the built-in PNG support instead of window on WB)
- gs -sOutputFile=ram:output%02d.png -sDEVICE=png256
- (output to files numbered ram:output01.png/ram:output02.png/etc using
- the PNG format (8bit))
- gs -r120 (use 120dpi as resolution instead of built-in 72, uses heaps of
- memory at high values)
- Arguments useful for PDF files (and ps documents conforming to DSC ?)
- gs -dFirstPage=pagenumber (starts on the given page of the document)
- gs -dLastPage=pagenumber (Stops after the given page of the document)
- See use.doc/Switches for a complete overview of what is available.
-
- (taken from 'new-user.txt')
- PDF encryption
- --------------
-
- A user outside the U.S. has created code that allows processing of encrypted
- PDF files. Unfortunately, current U.S. export control laws don't allow
- redistribution of this code from a site in the U.S., even though it's freely
- available to anyone anywhere in the world from its author's site, so you'll
- have to get this code from:
-
- http://www.ozemail.com.au/~geoffk/pdfencrypt/pdf_sec.ps
-
- If that doesn't work, try:
-
- http://www.ozemail.com.au/%7Egeoffk/pdfencrypt/pdf_sec.ps
-
- The patch consists entirely of PostScript code, so it can be added to a
- running version of Ghostscript -- you don't have to recompile anything. It
- is a single file that replaces the file pdf_sec.ps in the standard
- Ghostscript fileset (Ghostscript:data/pdf_sec.ps).
-
-
- ============================= Archive contents =============================
-
- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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- 56762 19280 66.0% 12-Apr-97 14:23:18 +drivers.txt
- 21374 8577 59.8% 12-Apr-97 14:23:18 +fonts.txt
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- 10528 4528 56.9% 12-Apr-97 14:23:20 +hershey.txt
- 12424 5113 58.8% 12-Apr-97 14:23:20 +history1.txt
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- 13737 5133 62.6% 12-Apr-97 14:23:26 +lib.txt
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