Thanks all,
I think I have enough info to go back in and figure it out. Will Acrbat
give a screen image of the file or simply tranlate to .pdf? I've been having
a hell of time downloading Ghostscript. GSview was pretty OK, but
Ghostscript keeps telling me it will take 2 days to download which is way
past inconvenient. Anyone experience similar problems?
I ask about Acrobat because I already have that. If its just a matter
generating files in abc2ps then opening them with Acrbat that might be
serviceable. The thing I've gotten used to with ABC2win is the ability to
switch between ABC and graphical out put to check what I'm doing. Is that
possible with the .ps arrangement?
AO
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Eric Mrozek
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 4:38 AM
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Subject: Re: [abcusers] Can anyone help!
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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