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Date:      Fri, 9 Jun 2000 13:54:35 -0400
From:      "leegold" <goldtech@worldpost.com>
To:        "Oscar Ricardo Silva" <oscars@mail.utexas.edu>
Cc:        <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How to view postscript files?
Message-ID:  <000601bfd23b$c6cd4cf0$20e27ad1@beefstew>
References:  <4.2.2.20000609111731.00ae2280@mail.utexas.edu>

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Oscar, I haven't tried it, check out the above link - they will convert your
.ps file to .pdf .  That may be easier for you to handle - maybe.








----- Original Message -----
From: Oscar Ricardo Silva <oscars@mail.utexas.edu>
To: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 12:39 PM
Subject: How to view postscript files?


> In learning to use FreeBSD 3.4/4.0 and some other Unix-type systems I've
> seen that many documents are distributed in postscript format.  If I'm on
a
> FreeBSD machine, with no X installed, how can I read the contents of these
> postscript files?
>
> I attempted to issue the command:  gs myfile.ps but received the following
> errors:
>
> Aladdin Ghostscript 6.01 (2000-03-17)
> Copyright (C) 2000 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.  All rights
reserved.
> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
> Error: /invalidfileaccess in --.outputpage--
> Operand stack:
>     1   true
> Execution stack:
>     %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
> --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
> --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3
>   %oparray_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
> --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   0   3
> %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
> --nostringval--
> Dictionary stack:
>     --dict:929/983(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:66/200(L)--
> Current allocation mode is local
> Current file position is 25499
> Aladdin Ghostscript 6.01: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>
>
>
>
> Any information would be appreciated.
>
>
>
> Oscar
>
>
>
> "Don't believe the hype"
>
>
>
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