GSview-4.6

Introduction to GSview

GSview is a viewer for PostScript and PDF using X.

Package information

Download (HTTP): http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/ghostscript/ghostgum/gsview-4.6.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/ghostgum/gsview-4.6.tar.gz
Download size: 895 KB
Estimated Disk space required: 19 MB
Estimated build time: 0.19 SBU

Additional downloads

Required Patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/5.1/gsview-4.6-pstotext.patch
Required Patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/5.1/gsview-4.6-lang.patch

GSview dependencies

Required

GTK+-1.2.10 and AFPL Ghostscript-8.14 or ESP Ghostscript-7.07.1 (with libgs.so installed)

Installation of GSview

GSview uses netscape to browse through the online help. BLFS does not install Netscape, but has other browsers from which to choose. Simply edit srcunx/gvxreg.c using the following sed script with your browser's executable file name substituting for [browser]:

sed -i s/netscape/[browser]/ srcunx/gvxreg.c

Install GSview by running the following commands:

sed 's|GSVIEW_ROOT=/usr/local|GSVIEW_ROOT=/usr|' \
    srcunx/unx.mak > Makefile &&
patch -Np1 -i ../gsview-4.6-pstotext.patch &&
patch -Np1 -i ../gsview-4.6-lang.patch &&
make &&
make install

Command explanations

sed 's|GSVIEW_ROOT=/usr/local|GSVIEW_ROOT=/usr|': This command changes the default installation directory to /usr.

Configuring GSview

Config files

/etc/gsview/*

Description

epstool

epstool is a tool for extracting preview bitmaps in EPS files.

gsview

gsview is a viewer for PostScript (PS) and PDF files.

gsview-help

gsview-help is a script for displaying help files in your chosen browser.