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GHOSTSCRIPT 6.0 (9-FEB-2000)

Postscript and PDF Interpreter/Viewer - Author: Aladdin Enterprises ghost@aladdin.com
Licenced under Aladdin Free Public Licence (see PUBLIC file)
VAX: Not tested - Alpha: DEC C 5.2, VMS 6.2

Ghostscript is an implementation of Adobe Systems' PostScript (tm) language, which is in turn similar to Forth. Gs reads files in sequence and executes them as Ghostscript programs. After doing this, it reads further input from the standard input stream (normally the keyboard). Each line is interpreted separately.

Gs 6.0 source from DECWarch
Gs 6.0 source from CNAM
Ghostscript Web Page
Gs 6.0 exe (Alpha VMS 6.2) from DECWarch
Gs 6.0 exe (Alpha VMS 6.2) from CNAM
Gs 6.0 fonts from DECWarch
Gs 6.0 fonts from CNAM

GHOSTSCRIPT 5.10 (10-OCT-1998)

Postscript and PDF Interpreter/Viewer - Author: Aladdin Enterprises ghost@aladdin.com
Licenced under Aladdin Free Public Licence (see PUBLIC file)
VAX: DEC C 5.0, VMS 6.1 - Alpha: DEC C 5.2, VMS 6.2

Ghostscript is an implementation of Adobe Systems' PostScript (tm) language, which is in turn similar to Forth. Gs reads files in sequence and executes them as Ghostscript programs. After doing this, it reads further input from the standard input stream (normally the keyboard). Each line is interpreted separately.

Gs 5.10 source from CNAM
Ghostscript Web Page
Gs 5.10 exe (VAX VMS 6.1) from CNAM
Gs 5.10 exe (Alpha VMS 6.2) from CNAM
Gs 5.10 fonts and PS files from CNAM

GHOSTSCRIPT 5.03 (18-AUG-1997)

Postscript and PDF Interpreter/Viewer - Author: Aladdin Enterprises ghost@aladdin.com
Licenced under Aladdin Free Public Licence (see PUBLIC file)
VAX: DEC C 5.0, VMS 6.1 - Alpha: DEC C 5.0, VMS 6.2

Ghostscript is an implementation of Adobe Systems' PostScript (tm) language, which is in turn similar to Forth. Gs reads files in sequence and executes them as Ghostscript programs. After doing this, it reads further input from the standard input stream (normally the keyboard). Each line is interpreted separately.

Gs 5.03 source from CNAM
Ghostscript Web Page
Gs 5.03 exe (VAX VMS 6.1) from CNAM
Gs 5.03 exe (Alpha VMS 6.2) from CNAM
Gs 5.03 fonts and PS files from CNAM

GHOSTSCRIPT 4.03 (18-MAY-1997)

Postscript and PDF Interpreter/Viewer - Author: Aladdin Enterprises ghost@aladdin.com
Licenced under Aladdin Free Public Licence (see PUBLIC file)
VAX: DEC C 5.0, VMS 6.1 - Alpha: DEC C 5.0, VMS 6.2

Ghostscript is an implementation of Adobe Systems' PostScript (tm) language, which is in turn similar to Forth. Gs reads files in sequence and executes them as Ghostscript programs. After doing this, it reads further input from the standard input stream (normally the keyboard). Each line is interpreted separately.

Gs 4.03 source from CNAM
Ghostscript Web Page
Gs 4.03 exe (VAX VMS 6.1) from CNAM
Gs 4.03 exe (Alpha VMS 6.2) from CNAM
Gs 4.03 fonts and PS files from CNAM

GHOSTSCRIPT 3.51 (7-DEC-1995)

Postscript and PDF Interpreter/Viewer - Author: Aladdin Enterprises ghost@aladdin.com
Licenced under Aladdin Free Public Licence (see PUBLIC file)
VAX: VAX C 3.2, VMS 5.5-2 , DEC C 5.0, VMS 6.1 - Alpha: DEC C 5.0, VMS 6.1

Ghostscript is an implementation of Adobe Systems' PostScript (tm) language, which is in turn similar to Forth. Gs reads files in sequence and executes them as Ghostscript programs. After doing this, it reads further input from the standard input stream (normally the keyboard). Each line is interpreted separately.

Gs 3.51 source from CNAM
Ghostscript Web Page
Gs 3.51 exe (VAXC VMS 5.5-2) from CNAM
Gs 3.51 exe (VAX DEC C VMS 6.1) from CNAM
Gs 3.51 exe (Alpha VMS 6.1) from CNAM
Gs 3.x fonts from CNAM

GHOSTSCRIPT 3.12 (14-FEB-1995)

Postscript and PDF Interpreter/Viewer - Author: Aladdin Enterprises ghost@aladdin.com
Licenced under Aladdin Free Public Licence (see PUBLIC file)
VAX: VAX C 3.2, VMS 5.5-2 - Alpha: DEC C 5.0, VMS 6.1

Ghostscript is an implementation of Adobe Systems' PostScript (tm) language, which is in turn similar to Forth. Gs reads files in sequence and executes them as Ghostscript programs. After doing this, it reads further input from the standard input stream (normally the keyboard). Each line is interpreted separately.

Ghostscript version 3.12 is the last including the GIF output driver.

Gs 3.12 source from CNAM
Ghostscript Web Page
Gs 3.12 exe (VAXC VMS 5.5-2) from CNAM
Gs 3.12 exe (Alpha VMS 6.1) from CNAM
Gs 3.x fonts from CNAM

GHOSTSCRIPT 2.61 (23-SEP-1994)

Postscript and PDF Interpreter/Viewer - Author: Aladdin Enterprises ghost@aladdin.com
Licenced under Aladdin Free Public Licence (see PUBLIC file)
VAX: VAX C 3.2, VMS 5.5-2 - Alpha: DEC C 5.0, VMS 6.1

Ghostscript is an implementation of Adobe Systems' PostScript (tm) language, which is in turn similar to Forth. Gs reads files in sequence and executes them as Ghostscript programs. After doing this, it reads further input from the standard input stream (normally the keyboard). Each line is interpreted separately.

Gs 2.61 source from CNAM
Ghostscript Web Page
Gs 2.61 exe (VAXC VMS 5.5-2) from CNAM
Gs 2.61 exe (Alpha VMS 6.1) from CNAM
Gs 2.61 fonts from CNAM

GHOSTVIEW 3.5.8 (22-MAY-1999/13-JUN-1999)

Postscript and PDF Viewer - Author: Johannes Plass plass@thep.physik.uni-mainz.de
Licence: GNU General Public Licence.
VAX: DEC C 5.0, VMS 6.1 - Alpha: DEC C 5.2, VMS 6.2, Ghostscript 4.x

GV allows to view and navigate through PostScript and PDF documents on an X display by providing a better user interface for the Ghostscript interpreter. Please note that gv is derived from Tim Theisen's ghostview 1.5.

This distributions includes XAW3D and XMU libraries.

13-JUN-1999: Bug fixed to allow viewing of gzipped ps files with large bitmaps (thanks to Jerôme Lauret).

GV 3.5.8 source from CNAM
GhostView Web Page
Ghostview Screenshot
GV 3.5.8 exe (VAX VMS 6.1) from CNAM
GV 3.5.8 exe (Alpha VMS 6.2) from CNAM

GHOSTVIEW 3.43 (18-MAY-1997)

Postscript and PDF Viewer - Author: Johannes Plass plass@thep.physik.uni-mainz.de
Licence: GNU General Public Licence.
VAX: DEC C 5.0, VMS 6.1 - Alpha: DEC C 5.0, VMS 6.2, Ghostscript 4.x

gv allows to view and navigate through PostScript and PDF documents on an X display by providing a better user interface for the Ghostscript interpreter. Please note that gv is derived from Tim Theisen's ghostview 1.5.

This distributions includes XAW3D and XMU libraries.

GV 3.43 source from CNAM
GhostView Web Page
Ghostview Screenshot
GV 3.43 exe (VAX VMS 6.1) from CNAM
GV 3.43 exe (Alpha VMS 6.2) from CNAM

GHOSTVIEW 2.76 (5-JAN-1997)

Postscript and PDF Viewer - Author: Johannes Plass plass@thep.physik.uni-mainz.de
Licence: GNU General Public Licence.
VAX: DEC C 5.0, VMS 6.1 - Alpha: DEC C 5.0, VMS 6.2, Ghostscript 3.x

gv allows to view and navigate through PostScript and PDF documents on an X display by providing a better user interface for the Ghostscript interpreter. Please note that gv is derived from Tim Theisen's ghostview 1.5.

This distributions includes XAW3D and XMU libraries.

GV 2.76 source from CNAM
GhostView Web Page

GHOSTVIEW 1.41 (6-MAY-1994)

Postscript and PDF Viewer - Author: Tim Theisen tim@cs.wisc.edu
Licence: GNU General Public Licence.
VAX: VAX C 3.2, VMS 5.5-2

The original Ghostview. Needs X11R5 XAW and XMU libraries for rebuild. Binaries are not available

GV 1.41 source from CNAM
MIT X11R5 XAW & XMU from CNAM

XPDF 1.0 (12-MAY-2002)

PDF Viewer - Author: Derek B. Noonburg derekn@foolabs.com
Licenced under the Gnu General Public Licence
Alpha: DEC C & C++ 5.2, VMS 6.2

Xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are also sometimes also called 'Acrobat' files, from the name of Adobe's PDF software.) Xpdf runs under the X Window System on UNIX, VMS, and OS/2.

Support of Freetype 2 and T1lib 1.0
VMS 7.2-1 binaries provided for Alpha.

Xpdf 1.0 from DECWarch
Xpdf 1.0 from CNAM
MPJZ's XPDF Page (with full distrib)
Xpdf Web page

XPDF 0.93 (3-DEC-2001)

PDF Viewer - Author: Derek B. Noonburg derekn@foolabs.com
Licenced under the Gnu General Public Licence
VAX: DEC C & C++ 5.2, VMS 6.2 - Alpha: DEC C & C++ 5.2, VMS 6.2

Xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are also sometimes also called 'Acrobat' files, from the name of Adobe's PDF software.) Xpdf runs under the X Window System on UNIX, VMS, and OS/2.

Support of Freetype 1.3.1 and T1lib 1.0 (Alpha VMS only) VMS 6.2 binaries provided for Alpha and for VAX.

Xpdf 0.93 from DECWarch
Xpdf 0.93 from CNAM
MPJZ's XPDF Page (with full distrib)
Xpdf Web page
Xpdf 0.93 VAX bin from DECWarch
Xpdf 0.93 VAX bin from CNAM

XPDF 0.92 (7-DEC-2000)

PDF Viewer - Author: Derek B. Noonburg derekn@foolabs.com
Licenced under the Gnu General Public Licence
VAX: DEC C & C++ 5.2, VMS 6.2 (not tested) - Alpha: DEC C & C++ 5.2, VMS 6.2

Xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are also sometimes also called 'Acrobat' files, from the name of Adobe's PDF software.) Xpdf runs under the X Window System on UNIX, VMS, and OS/2.

Support of Freetype 1.3.1 and T1lib 1.0 (Alpha VMS only) VMS 6.2 binaries provided.

Xpdf 0.92 from CNAM
MPJZ's XPDF Page (with full distrib)
Xpdf Web page
Xpdf 0.92 VAX bin from CNAM

XPDF 0.91 (10-SEP-2000)

PDF Viewer - Author: Derek B. Noonburg derekn@foolabs.com
Licenced under the Gnu General Public Licence
VAX: DEC C & C++ 5.2, VMS 6.2 - Alpha: DEC C & C++ 5.2, VMS 6.2

Xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are also sometimes also called 'Acrobat' files, from the name of Adobe's PDF software.) Xpdf runs under the X Window System on UNIX, VMS, and OS/2.

New: support of Freetype 1.3.1 and T1lib 1.0 (Alpha VMS only) VMS 6.2 (VAX & Alpha) binaries provided.

Xpdf 0.91 from CNAM
MPJZ's XPDF Page (with full distrib)
Xpdf Web page

XPDF 0.90-T1 (22-JAN-2000)

PDF Viewer - Author: Derek B. Noonburg derekn@foolabs.com
Licenced under the Gnu General Public Licence
VAX: DEC C & C++ 5.2, VMS 6.2 - Alpha: DEC C & C++ 5.2, VMS 6.2

Xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are also sometimes also called 'Acrobat' files, from the name of Adobe's PDF software.) Xpdf runs under the X Window System on UNIX, VMS, and OS/2.

New with V 0.90: PDF 1.3 partial support, new "backward" & "forward" buttons, zoom menu.

JAN-2000: New kit with updated vms_make files (for better DEC CXX 6.x support) and support for building with T1lib (thanks to Martin P.J. Zinser) Alpha binaries provided are built with T1 support.

Xpdf 0.90 T1 from CNAM
MPJZ's XPDF Page (with full distrib)
Xpdf Web page

XPDF 0.90 (8-AUG-1999)

PDF Viewer - Author: Derek B. Noonburg derekn@foolabs.com
Licenced under the Gnu General Public Licence
VAX: DEC C & C++ 5.2, VMS 6.2 - Alpha: DEC C & C++ 5.2, VMS 6.2

Xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are also sometimes also called 'Acrobat' files, from the name of Adobe's PDF software.) Xpdf runs under the X Window System on UNIX, VMS, and OS/2.

New with V 0.90: PDF 1.3 partial support, new "backward" & "forward" buttons, zoom menu.

Xpdf 0.90 from CNAM
Xpdf Web page

XPDF 0.80 (4-DEC-1998)

PDF Viewer - Author: Derek B. Noonburg derekn@foolabs.com
Licenced under the Gnu General Public Licence
VAX: DEC C & C++ 5.2, VMS 6.2 - Alpha: DEC C & C++ 5.2, VMS 6.2

Xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are also sometimes also called 'Acrobat' files, from the name of Adobe's PDF software.) Xpdf runs under the X Window System on UNIX, VMS, and OS/2.

Xpdf 0.80 from CNAM
Xpdf Web page
Xpdf 0.80 Screenshot

XPDF 0.7 WJM (24-JAN-1998)

PDF Viewer - Author: Derek B. Noonburg derekn@foolabs.com
Licenced under the Gnu General Public Licence
VAX: GCC or DEC C/C++, VMS 5.5-2 - Alpha: DEC C & C++ 5.2, VMS 6.2

Xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are also sometimes also called 'Acrobat' files, from the name of Adobe's PDF software.) Xpdf runs under the X Window System on UNIX, VMS, and OS/2.

Version with VMS 5.5-2 and pre-Motif DECWindows support by Wolfgang J. Moeller

Xpdf 0.7-wjm from CNAM
Xpdf Web page

XPDF 0.70 (10-JUN-1997)

PDF Viewer - Author: Derek B. Noonburg derekn@foolabs.com
Licenced under the Gnu General Public Licence
VAX: DEC C & C++ 5.2, VMS 6.2 - Alpha: DEC C & C++ 5.2, VMS 6.2

Xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are also sometimes also called 'Acrobat' files, from the name of Adobe's PDF software.) Xpdf runs under the X Window System on UNIX, VMS, and OS/2.

Xpdf 0.7 from CNAM
Xpdf Web page

XPDF 0.60 (15-NOV-1996)

PDF Viewer - Author: Derek B. Noonburg derekn@foolabs.com
Licenced under the Gnu General Public Licence
VAX: GCC 2.6.3 , VMS 6.1 - Alpha: DEC C & C++ 5.0, VMS 6.2

Xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are also sometimes also called 'Acrobat' files, from the name of Adobe's PDF software.) Xpdf runs under the X Window System on UNIX, VMS, and OS/2.

Xpdf 0.6 from CNAM
Xpdf Web page

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   Last Update: May 12 2002    

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