PS_View README This is PS_View (a previewing utility for Ghostscript interpreter) version 5.11. It is TeX-Live 2009 release -- it is fully functional and needs through testing. It can be used as a basic PostScript viewer, but it still probably has bugs. It is written using wxWidgets, wxLua and wxGhostscript libriares. Curently, it works under Windows and Linux. It should work also under Mac OS X. It would be marvellous if the bold Mac OS X-ers could verify it. Sources needed to recompile the program are in a separate zip file (note that it doesn't contain the Lua and PostScript scripts needed to run the program). Package consists of: README -- this file gswxluas -- wxLuaGhostscript executable (ELF) file gswxlua.exe -- wxLuaGhostscript executable (WIN32) file psv.wx.lua -- wxLua part of PS_View program psv_view.ps -- PostScript part of PS_View program psv -- bash script for linux psv.bat -- batch script for windows psv.desktop -- info file for Xwindow users psv.xpm -- icon for Xwindow psv_about*.ps -- about info files psv_help*.htb -- help files psv_usage*.pdf -- usage help files pl/, de/, en/, nl/ -- locale messages Usage: psv[.bat] [Postscript/PDF file] or Usage: gswxlua [-h|--help] [-c|--console] [-l|--lua] psv.wx.lua [options] [-p|--ps] psv_view.ps [-- [more options]] -h, --help help on command line arguments; -c, --console show message console; -l, --lua wxLua script to construct application; -q, --quiet turn off most of messages; -v, --verbose turn on verbose/debug mode; -n, --new open new window for document; -g, --gsdll path to Ghostscript dll/so file; -i, --gslib paths to Ghostscript init files; -s, --gsset Ghostscript parameter (-s equivalent); -d, --gsdef Ghostscript parameter (-d equivalent); -p, --ps PostScript program to run; -- all following argument will be passed to Ghostscript; Some paths are discovered automatically: 1) first, all the relevant files are searched along the path given in the command line (absolute or relative with respect to the current directory) 2) next, the files are searched in the directories defined in the config file [TODO: editing of the config file] 3) the Lua file is additionaly searched in the directory where the executable file has been found 3a) in turn, the PostScript file is searched in the directory where the Lua file was found 3b) if the search described in the points 3, 3a was needed, the resulting path is added to the search path of the Ghostscript input files 4) the Ghostscript library file (.dll or .so) is searched along the path given in the command line (-g option) 4a) then it is searched along the path defined by the GS_DLL environment variable 4b) if all attempts so far fail, the last resort in Unix is the standard library directory (/usr/local/lib, /usr/lib) and in Windows is the register key (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/GPL_Ghostscript) 4c) if the the Ghostscript library file was found in the points 2 or 4, the subdirectory lib/ of the relevant Ghostscript tree is also added to the search path of the Ghostscript input files Contact: BOP s.c., ul. T. Bora-Komorowskiego 24, 80-377 Gda\'nsk, Poland bop@bop.com.pl Copyright 1993-2009 P. Strzelczyk, P. Pianowski, B. Jackowski This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. It has been released in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see .