Re: Distributing Postcript Files for Viewing

[Rick Lanser <rickl -at- ENTER -dot- NET>]

At 05:02 PM 2/26/96 -0500, Michael Andrew Uhl asked:

>It has been suggested to me that I could save my FrameMaker files
>as PostScript files, as one would do to send them to a service
>bureau, and give our customer this PostScript file with the hope
>that they can use a freeware PostScript viewer program to look at
>the files.

>Is this a plausible approach? Have any of you ever distibuted
>PostScript files to a customer for them to view? Do freeware
>PostScript viewers exist? If so, please name one and let me know
>where andhow I might get a copy.

We are presently working on this kind of setup, using the freeware program
Ghostscript. I was originally thinking of using Adobe Acrobat to generate
files a branch office overseas could view and print but not modify, but we
decided to first try GS and its sister program, Ghostview. If you can print
to a a file, Ghostview will let you view it. You can find Ghostscript for
several different computer platforms at

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html

Good luck,

Rick Lanser


Rick Lanser
Publishing Specialist, Graco Children's Products, Inc.
rickl -at- enter -dot- net