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Short: Ghostscript3.53 mc68040 binary, Get gs353data.lha too
Author: GS(Aladdin)/Amiga(Olaf Barthel)/Port(me)
Uploader: Joop.vandeWege@Medew.ENTO.WAU.NL
Type: gfx/show
This is the Amiga port of Ghostscript3.53. 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.
This port requires:
- An Amiga equipped with an mc68040 CPU or 060 CPU model and
Kickstart 2.04 or higher.
- SetMathPatch if you run Kickstart 3.1!!!!!
- 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:
Joop.vandeWege@medew.ento.wau.nl
Please use a Subject field with the name 'GS353' 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 the data archive, gs353data.lha
It contains all needed data in one directory
This archive contains the mc68040 binary which should run on A4000-040
(NOT 68LC040!!!!) and any A500/A600/A1000/A2000 machine with mc68040/60
installed and enough RAM. On my machine (A3000 + Merlin) it uses 150Kb
Chip and 1.5Mb Fast.
Expect it to use more if the psfile is big/complex or when displaying PDF
files and when using 256color modes for the Workbench.
How to use Ghostscript.
Unpack the archive gs353data.lha to a suitable HD with enough room (~3.5M).
A directory 'Ghostscript' will be created and all files needed are found
within this directory.
Unpack one of the special binary archives to the same HD and the executable
will automatically placed in the same directory Ghostscript.
There are two ways to proceed from here.
- Assign Ghostscript: to the directory where you unpacked the archive.
Example: unpack on 'Work:', creates Work:Ghostscript
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
- Set the following environment variables:
- GS_LIB, example: setenv GS_LIB=work:ghostscript/data
- GS_DEVICE example: setenv GS_DEVICE=amiga (default)
- GS_OPTIONS example: setenv GS_OPTIONS="-sDEVICE=png16m -r120"
The only required variable is GS_LIB. Now you can copy 'GS' to a place
which is in the AmigaDOS search path.
See the 'Ghostscript/docs' directory for more information, like commandline
options. Some notes:
Watch out for case sensitivity when using commandline options, -sOutputFile
is not equal to -soutputfile !!!!!
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 pallette 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.
============================= Archive contents =============================
Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
-------- ------- ----- --------- -------- -------------
873808 415772 52.4% 18-Apr-96 18:07:04 +gs_040
5231 5231 0.0% 05-Mar-96 22:09:56 +SetMathPatch.lha
-------- ------- ----- --------- --------
879039 421003 52.1% 28-Apr-96 20:20:22 2 files