[COLUG] windoz and postscript files.

[Aaron Howard]

On Thursday 19 April 2007 3:11 pm, Rob Funk wrote:
> Vincent Herried wrote:
> > I'm runing a genealogy web site (fedora core) that generates postscript
> > files.
> > I sent a blah.ps file to a ms windoz relative but they were unable to
> > open it.
> >
> > Google seems to think ghostscript is the program to use.
> >
> > any one have any other free programs?
>
> Ghostscript is THE free program for viewing postscript.  In fact, I can't
> think of a non-free viewer either.
>
> Postscript is a printer language, not designed for on-screen viewing.
>
> Your best best is to use ghostscript's "ps2pdf" program to convert your
> postscript to PDF, and send the PDF to your relative to view in the Adobe
> Acrobat Reader.

I was going to mention ghostview (from the makers of ghostscript) which is an 
application for viewing PS files on screen...but since your genealogy web 
site generates ps files already, it should be trivial to add a 

ps2pdf blah.ps

step at the end...so I agree with Rob.

-Aaron