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GSview 4.6 PostScript previewer。Ghostscript在MS-Windows, OS/2 and Unix下的图形化接口

  make
</pre>
GSview may also be available in a tar.gz file which already has
Unix line endings.
To install, run <tt>make install</tt>
See the <a href="#X11">X11/Unix</a> topic for more notes
on X11 GSview.
For SunOS or SGI IRIX, uncomment the appropriate lines in the makefile.
</p>

<h2>
<a name="X11"></a>
X11/Unix
</h2>
<p>
X11 GSview is written by a novice at X Windows programming.
It might have serious problems.  
The GTK+ toolkit is used for most of the graphical interface,
with a very small amount of Xlib.
</p>
<p>
GSview on Unix uses the Ghostscript shared object.
Drawing (especially over a network when using anti-aliased text) 
should be faster.
</p>

<h3>
Unimplemented features
</h3>
<ul>
<li> Help uses HTML and netscape.
    Gnome Help Browser is not used because it doesn't
    support #topic on the command line.  For example:
      gnome-help-browser file:/path/gsview.htm#Page_Size
    If you know of a way to tell the Gnome Help Browser to
    jump to a particular topic, particularly without opening
    another copy of the browser, please let me know.
<li> Keyboard movement between widgets
<li> Full screen not implemented
<li> Clipboard operations
<li> Sounds
</ul>
<p>

<h3>
Known problems
</h3>
<ul>
<li> Fit window doesn't get the correct dimension of the scrolled window
     client area, so the resize is slightly wrong.
   At the moment we use the size of the scroll window less the
   two scroll bars.
<li> GSview still includes lots of debugging code.
</ul>

<h3>
Requests
</h3>
<p>
Suggestions from GTK+ programmers about how to improve GSview.
</p>
<p>
Bug reports.  Use "gsview -d9" to get debugging messages on stdout.
</p>


<h2>
<a name="Bugs"></a>
Bugs
</h2>
<p>
Send bug reports to Russell Lang at Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd, 
<tt>gsview</tt> <b>at</b> <tt>ghostgum.com.au</tt>. 
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.
For a list of known bugs, see
    <a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/bugs.htm">
    http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/bugs.htm
    </a>
</p>

<h2>
<a name="Updates"></a>
Updates
</h2>
<p>
A World Wide Web home page for Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview is at
    <a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/">
    http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
    </a>
</p>

<p>
The latest version of GSview should be available from
    <a href="ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/ghostgum/">
    ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/ghostgum/gsview*.zip
    </a>
or by mail (see next section) on a CD-ROM.
</p>

<h2>
<a name="ObtainGS"></a>
Obtaining Ghostscript
</h2>
<p>
Ghostscript can be downloaded from the Internet, or obtained on
<a href="cdorder.txt">CD-ROM</a>.
</p>

<p>
To download, go to the <a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/">
Ghostscript home page</a>
then follow the link to <b>Obtaining AFPL Ghostscript</b>.
</p>

<p>
To obtain the latest version of GSview and AFPL Ghostscript
on CD-ROM, send the <a href="cdorder.txt">order form</a>
and payment to the address on the order form.
Payment may be credit card or cheque for USD$50 drawn on a 
USA bank or equivalent drawn on your local bank.
For surface delivery within Australia, send a cheque for AUD$70 
drawn on an Australian bank.
</p>

<p>
The CD-ROM (actually a CD-R) will contain ready to run 
and ready to install copies of GSview and AFPL Ghostscript for 
Windows and OS/2, plus a number of other PostScript utilities.
The CD-ROM will be dispatched by air-mail.  
This offer is valid until 30 June 2004.  If this date has
passed, send mail to 
<tt>gsview</tt> <b>at</b> <tt>ghostgum.com.au</tt>. 
to find out if the offer is still valid.
For more details see the page
    <a href="http://www.ghostgum.com.au/cd.htm">
    http://www.ghostgum.com.au/cd.htm
    </a>

<h2>
<a name="Copyright"></a>
Copyright, Licensing and Registration
</h2>
<p>
GSview is copyright by Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd.
GSview is distributed with the Aladdin Free Public Licence.  
This licence is contained in the file 
    <a href="LICENCE">
    LICENCE
    </a>.
</p>

<p>
These licences do not require any payment to the author;
however the author would welcome any registrations of GSview to cover 
costs and time involved in developing and maintaining GSview.  
The registration fee is currently AUD$40.
GSview can be <a href="http://www.ghostgum.com.au/">registered online</a>
at <a href="http://www.ghostgum.com.au/">http://www.ghostgum.com.au/</a>
or by faxing or mailing the <a href="regorder.txt">registration form</a>.
Ghostgum Software prefers that you use the online registration.
On registration you will be sent a registration code to disable
the nag screen.
</p>

<p>
The postal address for Ghostgum Software is:
</p>
  <blockquote>
    Russell Lang
    <br>
    Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd
    <br>
    218 Gallaghers Rd
    <br>
    GLEN WAVERLEY  VIC  3150
    <br>
    AUSTRALIA
  </blockquote>

<p>
GSview uses Ghostscript to display the contents of the PostScript
files.  Ghostscript is a separate program from GSview; it is
owned by artofcode LLC, not by Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd.
</p>

<p>
AFPL Ghostscript comes with a licence that is more restrictive 
than the GNU Licence; in particular, it restricts the distribution of
AFPL Ghostscript in commercial contexts.  Please see the file 
PUBLIC that accompanies AFPL Ghostscript for more details.  
</p>

<p>
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 
    <a href="http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/virtualpaper/pstotext.html">
    http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/virtualpaper/pstotext.html
    </a>
</p>

<p>
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 Public Licence (GPL).  pstoedit is <b>not</b> included
with GSview.  You will need to obtain pstoedit separately from the 
pstoedit homepage
  <a href="http://www.pstoedit.net/pstoedit">
  http://www.pstoedit.net/pstoedit
  </a> 
  or from 
  <a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/pstoedit.htm">
  http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/pstoedit.htm
  </a>.  
Source code can be obtained from these sites.
</p>

<p>
GSview uses zlib 1.0.4 in an external DLL.  zlib is
  Copyright (C) 1995-1996 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.
  See 
    <a href="http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/">
    http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/
    </a>
</p>

<p>
GSview uses bzip2 in an external DLL.  bzip2 is 
 Copyright 1996-2000 by Julian Seward.  
 See 
    <a href="http://sourceware.cygnus.com/bzip2/index.html">
    http://sourceware.cygnus.com/bzip2/index.html
    </a>
</p>

<p>
The installation programs may use an 
<a href="http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/">unzip</a>
decompression library (DLL)
by the Info-ZIP group.  The original sources are freely available
from 
    <a href="ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/">
    ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/
    </a>
</p>

<h2>
<a name="Other"></a>
Other Useful Programs
</h2>
<p>
<a href="gsprint.htm">GSPRINT</a> is a command line tool
for printing using Windows GDI printer drivers.  This is
included with GSview.
</p>

<p>
<a href="epstool.htm">EPSTOOL</a> is a command line tool
for adding and removing previews from EPS files.  
An older version is included with GSview.
</p>

<h2>
<a name="Acknowledgements"></a>
Acknowledgements
</h2>
<p>
L. Peter Deutsch, for writing Ghostscript and for making changes to 
Ghostscript to support GSview.
</p>

<p>
Tim Theisen, who wrote Ghostview for X11 which provided the inspiration
for GSview.
</p>

<p>
Paul McJones and Andrew Birrell of DEC, for making pstotext available 
and making changes to it for use with GSview.
</p>

<p>
Thomas Pfeiffer and Mrs. Stefanie Kolweyh for translating GSview into 
German/Deutsch.  Thomas Hoffmann for updates.
</p>

<p>
Cyrille Chevallet for translating GSview into French/Fran鏰is.
</p>

<p>
Antonio Guadagnin for translating GSview into Italian/Italiano.
</p>

<p>
Pascual Lucas for translating GSview into Spanish/Espa駉l.
</p>

<p>
Stamos Mylonas for translating GSview into Greek/Ellenika.
</p>

<p>
Kris Steenhaut for translating GSview into Dutch/Nederlands.
</p>

<p>
Oleg Bondar for translating GSview into Russian.
</p>

<p>
Bj鰎n S鰀erstr鰉 for translating GSview into Swedish/Svenska.
</p>

<p>
Juo Verut for translating GSview into Slovak.
</p>

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