Viewing postscript files in Cygwin without X

Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net
Tue Nov 25 10:22:00 GMT 2008


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Fergus wrote:
> The recent update to ghostscript prompts me to ask: is there supplied
> with Cygwin a viewer that will permit viewing of postscript files
> without running X? (Can use gv when running X.)

Thanks to the X11 modularization, the new ghostscript depends only on a
few X libraries; it does not require an X server unless you specify an
x11* output device, nor will an X server be installed as a dependency of
ghostscript.  So you can still use the ghostscript package without
"running" X.


Yaakov
Cygwin/X

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