GSview

Overview

GSview is a graphical interface for Ghostscript under MS-Windows, OS/2 and Unix. Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript page description language used by laser printers. For documents following the Adobe PostScript Document Structuring Conventions, GSview allows selected pages to be viewed or printed.

Obtain GSview 5.0

GSview requires Ghostscript 7.04 - 9.99. GSview requires Ghostscript. You must download Ghostscript separately. See sourceforge or ghostscript The current release is GPL Ghostscript 9.05.

For Windows, obtain and install Ghostscript, then run the GSview self extracting archive gsv50w32.exe (or gsv50w64.exe on Win64).

Features include:

• Display and print PostScript and PDF files.
• View pages in arbitrary order (Next, Previous, Goto).
• Page size and Orientation are automatically selected from DSC comments or can be selected using the menu.
• Print selected pages using Ghostscript.
• Convert pages to bitmap, PDF or PostScript.
• Selectable display resolution, depth, alpha.
• Single button zoom.
• Extract selected pages to another file.
• Copy display bitmap to clipboard.
• Save clipboard bitmap as BMP file.
• Add bitmap or user preview to EPS file (Interchange, TIFF or Windows Metafile)
• Graphically select and show bounding box for EPS file.
• Extract bitmap preview or PostScript from DOS EPS file.
• Extract text or search for text.
• Can read gzip and bzip2 compressed PostScript and PDF files.
• On-line help.
• Win64, Win32. Older versions support GNU/Linux, OS/2 and Win16.
• Can be run directly off a CD-ROM or USB memory stick (Portable Application).
• English, Catalan, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish and Swedish languages.
• Per user initialisation files for Windows.
• Includes setup program.
• Free (Aladdin Free Public Licence).
• Works with Ghostscript 7.04 - 9.99 (GSview checks the Ghostscript version number). Some older versions of GSview will work with Ghostscript 4.03 - 6.99 .

Changes in version 5.0:

Minor bug fixes.
Help file updated to work on Windows 7.
Saving registration number fix on Windows 7.
Non-English languages work on 64-bit Windows.
GNU/Linux code has been removed while it is being updated to the current version of gtk+.
GSview was written by Russell Lang at Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd.