Those listed here aren't necessarily the only ways to view the documents, especially for PostScript which is recognized by many printers. Some Unix systems may have viewers for all three of these formats already.
ps DVI (virtually)
any platformwww.adobe.com Mac OS " Mac OS X
- PStill - PostScript to PDF distillery
- SourceForge:Ghostscript
- MacGhostView(X) at Kiffe & Kiffe
Mac OS X " OS X TeX users have an interest in this. Windows " Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview For new methods that may not be listed here, check at the bottom of this page: HTML Math Overview
For a fairly comprehensive list of Mac OS X readers in general, see Native OS X Apps : Readers
It is possible now to have a Ghostscript based PostScript viewer running natively in OS X.
MacGhostViewX is available at Kiffe & Kiffe - TeX. The Ghostscript package is required to handle PostScript interpretation as MacGhostViewX is just a previewer that calls on ghostscript utilities to perform file conversion.A shareware alternative that is easier to install is MacGhostView, which does not require separate installation of the Ghostscript package.
Ghostscript provides a utility to convert PostScript files to PDF and other
formats.
These pointers are for just about any platform where it is possible to compile
C programs.
- First, you need to be able to compile C programs. For Mac OS X, one way is through the developer package available from developer.apple.com. Another way is to get in at the ground level through the Darwin project. Or, you could ask a friend to compile it for you on their OS X platform. It is reasonable to expect that someone may have precompiled the Ghostscript package for Mac OS X and bundled it for easy installation without the need for a compiler on the target system. See Fink Package ghostscript.
- Obtain the GNU Ghostscript source code, at least version 7.0.5.
- Obtain the Independent JPEG Group's jpeg library source code (also avail. from ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/). Place that extracted result in the ghostscript source folder.
- With a terminal window, in the ghostscript source folder, issue the command ./configure, then make, and make install.
- You'll also need to obtain fonts. Version 6.0 gnu-gs-fonts are located at this ghostscript FTP mirror site. Put them together in a fonts subdirectory of /usr/local/share/ghostscript (the default installation location of ghostscript), then
- Use the "Set Search Paths..." option in MacGostView to point to /usr/local/share/ghostscript
See /usr/local/share/ghostscript/{version}/lib/FontMap.GS for the names of fonts and the corresponding files that should be in the fonts folder in order to use them in PostScript output.
To run ghostscript from a command line, gs is the program, located by default at /usr/local/bin/gs
But to convert from ps to pdf, use the script ps2pdf, also located in /usr/local/bin/