Hi, Roberto Perotti pointed me to a solution for: > I have been trying - and trying and trying - to read a large multi-page > Postscript file [[the REXX manual]] using FreeDOS. The pages were too > small to read when sent directly to screen. So I sent pages to the > pcxmono driver [[-NOPAUSE -sDEVICE#pcxmono -sOutputFile#foo.pcx".... > ]]. That made a very nice pcx file but only for the first page of the > manual!
> With -sOutputFile#foo%0d.pcx I got the first ten pages. The new 5.10 GS > documentation says you can also use format -sOutputFile#foo%02d.pcx but > I never got any output file at all with GS 5.10. The first 10 pages of > the manual were obtained with the older version of GS. It seems that newer versions support this syntax: gs -sDEVICE=jpeg -r150 -sOutputFile=page%d.jpg input.'ps'eps'pdf' (convert all pages to 150 dpi jpeg - note that for screen output resolutions like 72 or 75 dpi are usually enough.) The good news is that Roberto has new DOS ports online: http://www.perotti.ic.cz/ghostscript/ has DOS ports of ghostscript 7.05 (4.4MB) 8.16 (6.0MB) and 8.63 (20MB). The 8.63 port is by David Peterac. There are problems with direct VESA display at the moment, so if somebody knows where the bug is or if you have any other ideas and suggestions, please contact David or Roberto :-). As said, converting to jpeg files already works fine, so you can use your existing DOS jpeg viewers to view the JPG versions of your PS, EPS or PDF files in DOS, made with a DOS port of ghostscript GS :-). Thanks! Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
