need help installing software for reading .ps files
I need to open a .ps file. I've installed pstoedit onto my computer. I see from the readme file that I also need to install ghostscript, but each time I try to do this a pop-up window appears telling me I need to install it using win-zip and that this will cost me money. I'm confused. Is ghostscript not open source as well, or am I just clicking on the wrong download?
Thanks.
Julie escribió:
I need to open a .ps file. I’ve installed pstoedit onto my computer. I see from the readme file that I also need to install ghostscript, but each time I try to do this a pop-up window appears telling me I need to install it using win-zip and that this will cost me money. I’m confused. Is ghostscript not open source as well, or am I just clicking on the wrong download?
Thanks.
If you are on WIndows, you can install Ghoscript fairly easily. As you can see from the website, Ghostscript is a command-line only tool, however they advise you to download GSView, which will add a grphical front-end to it. You do no need Win-zip as such to extract it, depending on your version of Windows, you may simply download the .zip file and use the Windows "compressed-folder" tool, which is part of the OS and will allow you to open and extract compressed archives such as .zip files (all you have to do is double-click on a .zip file) or download another program to better deal with compressed packages in general such as 7Zip, which is also OpenSource and Free (www.7-zip.org)
Thanks so much for your help.
Julie -----Original Message----- From: inkscape-user-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:inkscape-user-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Gian Paolo Mureddu Sent: July 28, 2008 8:20 PM To: Inkscape User Community Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] need help installing software for reading .ps files
Julie escribió:
I need to open a .ps file. Ive installed pstoedit onto my computer. I see from the readme file that I also need to install ghostscript, but each time I try to do this a pop-up window appears telling me I need to install it using win-zip and that this will cost me money. Im confused. Is ghostscript not open source as well, or am I just clicking on the wrong download?
Thanks.
If you are on WIndows, you can install Ghoscript fairly easily. As you can see from the website, Ghostscript is a command-line only tool, however they advise you to download GSView, which will add a grphical front-end to it. You do no need Win-zip as such to extract it, depending on your version of Windows, you may simply download the .zip file and use the Windows "compressed-folder" tool, which is part of the OS and will allow you to open and extract compressed archives such as .zip files (all you have to do is double-click on a .zip file) or download another program to better deal with compressed packages in general such as 7Zip, which is also OpenSource and Free (www.7-zip.org)
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