Chris Davidson wrote: ...
Basically what abcm2ps - and all the related XXXXXXps programs - do is
use ghostscript to produce a postscript file (with suffix .ps) which
unless you have a postscript printer, will not be in a format your
printer can use. This is where gsview comes in - it enables you to
display the postscript file on the screen and print it to your standard
printer (or produce a pdf file, which is then readable with Adobe
Acrobat).
Actually all the abc2ps variants write postscript code directly. They have nothing to do with ghostscript. For example... I typically do all my format conversion, viewing, and printing using Acrobat.
You could use ghostscript to convert the *.ps file to a pdf, or an image, or print it. GSView itself is a GUI for on-screen viewing. All of the rendering is done by ghostscript. The GSView utility menus are just GUIs to ghostscript options. You don't need GSView for any of that (although it is very useful). You could do it all on the command line with ghostscript.
Eric
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