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This CD-ROM contains PDF files containing each of the papers in the
SIGGRAPH 95 conference proceedings, as well as many of the other
materials in the book. These may be read by installing the Acrobat reader
that is provided on this disc. The reader is provided for Macintosh,
Windows, DOS, Solaris, and SGI; the latter is a reader that has just been
released by Adobe and we are proud to be able to bring it to you.
There are a few features of the PDF files that we want to mention in
this note:
* The CONTENTS.PDF and AUTHINDX.PDF files are standard Table of
Contents and Author Index pages, linked to the actual papers. So if
you click on a paper's title in either file, you will immediately be
jumped to that paper. To return to the original file, simply click on
the double arrow button in the Reader's menu bar.
* This disc contains a word index that will allow anyone with a version
of the Acrobat system with indexing capabilities to do very fast
word searches of the entire disc's PDF files. We hope this new
capability of Acrobat will prove helpful to you.
* Each paper has been enhanced with "article following" -- if you click
in the title area, you will get an enlarged view of the paper, and continued
clicks will follow the paper column-by-column until the end. This is also
a new capability and we hope it will be useful.
* If you are working on a workstation that does not support any of the
Acrobat Readers, then it is possible that you can still read the PDF files
through a feature of ghostscript and ghostview. This file contains
information on getting and using these tools; read on for more details.
That's about it; we hope that the continuing development of the SIGGRAPH
Proceedings discs and the Acrobat system will give you an even better use
of this disc in 1995 than you had for earlier years' discs.
-- Steve Cunningham
SIGGRAPH 95 Proceedings CD-ROM Production Editor
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HOW TO - read PDF files on a UNIX workstation
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Ghostscript and ghostview are free utilities that together will display PDF
files such as those on the SIGGRAPH CD-ROMs. These programs run on almost all
Unix X-windows workstations.
While ghostview is freely distributed through the GNU Public License,
ghostscript 3.33 is constrained by a stricter license that permits free
distribution, but not inclusion on a for-sale CD-ROM.
The programs are available at:
ftp://siggraph.org/utilities/unix/ghost
The files you will need are:
gs3.33.tar - The ghostscript source (v. 3.33)
gv1.5h.tar - The ghostview source (v. 1.5 hacked for PDF)
gs-fonts1.tar - Necessary ghostscript fonts (v. 3.33)
gs-fonts2.tar - Extra ghostscript fonts (v. 3.33)
Unpackage ``gs3.33'' and ``gv1.5h'' into the directory /usr/local/src. Create
the directory /usr/local/lib/ghostscript and unpackage ``gs-fonts1'' and
``gs-fonts2'' there.
Ghostscript 3.33 and ghostview 1.5h are currently distributed in source-code
form only. You will need super-user permissions to compile and install these
programs properly.
INSTALLATION NOTES - GHOSTSCRIPT
--------------------------------
1. The installation is described in the ``make.doc'' file.
2. I've included a standard Makefile.LINUX and Makefile.IRIX5 in the
ghostscript source to make it easier to install ghostscript for these two
operating systems.
3. If you use a makefile other than the above two, make sure to set
DEVICE_DEVS1=psmono.dev
to set up ghostscript to display and print PDF files.
INSTALLATION NOTES - GHOSTVIEW
------------------------------
1. The installation is described in the ``README'' file.
2. The ghostscript patch described at the beginning of the ghostview ``README''
file has already been applied to the gs3.33 package on siggraph.org.
HOW TO - print PDF files on a UNIX workstation
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The command:
gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=psmono -sOutputFile=file.ps file.pdf
will convert the PDF file ``file.pdf'' into the Level 1 Monochrome PostScript
file ``file.ps'' which may then be printed on any PostScript printer.
John C. Hart Stephen Spencer
SIGGRAPH Director-at-Large SIGGRAPH Proceedings Production Editor