Re: Ghostscript and LaTeX/dvipsk

David Mosberger-Tang (davidm@azstarnet.com)
Mon, 1 Apr 1996 06:54:52 -0700


>>>>> On Mon, 1 Apr 1996 13:38:03 +0200, Torsten Zirzlaff <zirzlaff@satchmo.physik.tu-berlin.de> said:

Torsten> Hi David.
>>>>> "David" == David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@AZStarNet.com> writes:

David> The problem seems to be that ghostscript-2.6 isn't quite 64
David> bit clean yet. I sent some patches to Erik and those help a
David> lot. However, Aladdin ghostscript (3.something) appears to
David> work better still. Unfortunately, its copyright status is
David> such that it disallows CD-ROM distribution. But a set of
David> precompiled binaries are available in:

Torsten> Hm, I muse you need some patches for Ghostscript 3.x?

Not anymore (there used to be problems with gcc before 2.7.1) but
nowadays it's just a rebuild away.

David>
David> ftp://ftp.azstarnet.com/pub/linux/axp/misc/axpbin-ghostview.tar.gz
David>
David>

David> The tar file contains both ghostview and ghostscript. The
David> files are quite old already (Aug 95), but AFAIK, they should
David> work fine. If you try them, let me know how they work.

Torsten> Unfortunately, this file didn't exists there. I know some
Torsten> time ago it was there, but now it isn't there.

The file moved into directory
ftp://ftp.azstarnet.com/pub/linux/axp/non-free and the name is now
*gs-and-ghostview*. Sorry about that.

--david