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Re: Re: PostScript reader (for MAC)


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  • 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.



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