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From: tage DOT westlund AT stockholm DOT mail DOT telia DOT com (Tage Westlund)
Subject: POSTSCRIPT PRINTING
1 Oct 1997 15:30:36 -0700 :
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Reply-To: tage DOT westlund AT stockholm DOT mail DOT telia DOT com
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To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Hej!
My system is Win95 and I have the binary gnuwin32-b18.
I am not on a network and have no postscript printer, but
I have a valuable Postscript text file. There is no plain
text alternative on the web.
What free software can I download for printing the text?
I hope my case is of general interest for the mailing list 
members. 
Pure ASCII will be good enough; no need for viewing the text 
on the screen.
Own investigation led me to a GNU mirror and to the
ghostscript/ghostview combination. This was easy to download.
I expanded  ghostscript-3.33pc.tar.gz  and was able to start
gs386.exe  which gave an empty window and the prompt GS>
I am aware that the included source for ghostview is to be 
compiled so it can control ghostscript to do the viewing and
printing actions, but #include <X11/...> fails. Do I have to 
download the whole X11R6 complex of 150 MB? I hesitate!

Are there other free utilities available for printing in Post-
script?

Tage

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