Re: Re: PostScript reader (for MAC)
- To: mathgroup@smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg10266] Re: [mg10161] Re: PostScript reader (for MAC)
- From: seanross@worldnet.att.net
- Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 05:07:18 -0500
- References: <67fh2o$lfg@smc.vnet.net> <199712210806.DAA26946@smc.vnet.net.>
Julian Stoev wrote: > > On 19 Dec 1997, William B. Marks wrote: > > |?How to read the file > > [...del] > > |Data.ps > | > |on a Mac? NetScape says it requires a plug-in of type > |"application/postscript", which it does not have. Adobe Acrobat 3.01 > |can't read it. > > That's because you need Ghostscript for MAC > ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/pub/ghost/aladdin/gs510/mac/ > > BTW, I can use GS to read Acrobat's PDF files too. I thing you'd better > use this program. It even needs less space on the disc. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Julian Stoev <j.h.stoev@ieee.org> - Ph. D. Student Intelligent > Information Processing Lab. - Seoul National University, Korea Another option is to purchase the full version of Adobe Acrobat. The free, downloadable version is actually Acrobat Reader. The full version of Adobe Acrobat has a utility, called Acrobat Distiller, which converts .ps files into .pdf files so they can be read by Acrobat Reader or Acrobat Exchange(same as Reader but allows editing) -- Remove the _nospam_ in the return address to respond.