GSview 4.8 review

GSview program is a graphical interface for Ghostscript, an interpreter for the PostScript page description language used by laser pr

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GSview program is a graphical interface for Ghostscript, an interpreter for the PostScript page description language used by laser printers.

For documents following the Adobe PostScript Document Structuring Conventions, it allows selected pages to be viewed or printed. GSview requires Ghostscript 7 or later.

Here are some key features of "GSview":
Display and print PostScript and PDF files.
View pages in arbitrary order (Next, Previous, Goto).
Page size and Orientation are automatically selected from DSC comments or can be selected using the menu.
Print selected pages using Ghostscript.
Convert pages to bitmap, PDF or PostScript.
Selectable display resolution, depth, alpha.
Single button zoom.
Extract selected pages to another file.
Copy display bitmap to clipboard.
Save clipboard bitmap as BMP file.
Add bitmap or user preview to EPS file (Interchange, TIFF or Windows Metafile)
Graphically select and show bounding box for EPS file.
Extract bitmap preview or PostScript from DOS EPS file.
Extract text or search for text.
Can read gzip and bzip2 compressed PostScript and PDF files.
On-line help.
Win32, OS/2 and Linux/X11 executables. Older versions support Win16.
Can be run directly off a CD-ROM.
English, Catalan, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish and Swedish languages.
Per user initialisation files for Windows.
Includes setup program.
Free (Aladdin Free Public Licence).
Works with Ghostscript 7.04 - 9.99 (GSview checks the Ghostscript version number). There are older versions of GSview that will work with Ghostscript 4.03 - 7.00.

Requirements:
Ghostscript 8.53 or later

What's New in This Release:
Minor bug fixes.