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> In <524.6675T438T383@ccinet.ab.ca>  Tom Weniger did say:
> >I have tried to get Ghostscript (gs353) up and running on my 4000/040 but to
> >no avail. I have followed the instructions and made the suggested assigns
> >but everytime I try to start it from a shell GS freezes. The only luck I
> >have had is to call up the help function: >gs -h.
> 
> >Has anyone successfully managed to run GS? If so, can they offer some
> >suggestions to help me?
> 
> Well I got it to run on my A3000 (WB3.1). The biggest problem I had was with
> fonts. Apart from that I just followed the instructions.  It even displays the
> PDF files (if a bit slowly). The only thing is how do you get it to print?
> Every time I try it tells me that it doesn't know how (no printers).

I just installed Ghostscript on my machine (see .sig) with few problems
other than the usual crappy unix documentation.  To the first guy:  GS
"hangs" on my system if I run it with no command line options.  Ie, I have
to type "GS lab1.ps", but it will not let me load "lab1.ps" after I start
the program; it "hangs" and won't parse input.  Try it this way if you
haven't; I don't know if it's a bug or it's just not set up right, but it
works that way.. 

To the reponder:  you can print to the prefs: printer by invoking "GS
-sDEVICE=amiga_printer" when you start it. (for some reason this wasn't
in the dox; took me a while to figure it out..)  Output is great on my HP
DeskJet 540 (much much better than with Post1.86..).

Now my question:  how do you force it to use fonts other than what the 
document is looking for?  My logic design professor insists on writing up 
our lab sheets using wierd fonts that aren't installed on my system..  
Can I force it just to use whatever I do have?  I really wouldn't care if 
it used Topaz8 if it would just print..


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