I just tried opening an Out.ps file with Acrobat Reader 5.0 on the Macintosh and on Windows with no success. I think the full version of Acrobat (Distiller) can work with postscript files, but Reader cannot.
[If you have Java 1.3 or better on your machine, you can use Skink as an editor/viewer player www.geocities.com/w_macaulay/skink.html] wil Frank Nordberg wrote: > A. O. Gutierrez wrote: > > 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. > > What's wrong with that? Don't you have any patience at all??? :-P > Seriously, you shouldn't believe everything your computer tells you. > GhostScript is quite a download, but not *that* big! > > > 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. > > Acrobat can open plain postscript files, can't it? If so, you have no > need for GhostScript. > > > > > 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? > > Nope. That's the major shortcoming of this whole abc2ps scheme. > > Frank Nordberg > http://www.musicaviva.com > > To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: >http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
