Short: A postscript previewer Author: sebauer@t-online.de (Sebastian Bauer) Uploader: sebauer@t-online.de (Sebastian Bauer) Version: 0.1 Type: text/print Requires: OS 3.0, MUI Kurz: Ein Postscript Previewer Introduction ~~~~~~~~~~~~ SimplePost is a postscript previewer for your Amiga with a (hopfully) nice GUI. It is based on Alladin Ghostscript 6.0 so I hope that all the files are drawn correctly. You can switch between pages, save them as IFF-ILBM and print them (via external programm). But note that everything is far from being perfect. Copyright, Distribtion and Disclamer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SimplePost is ©2000 by Sebastian Bauer. SimplePost is freeware. Feel free to spreat it, as long as all files are included and in an unchanged form. You are not allowed to make profit from its distribution! In no way the author can be made responible for any damage created by the program. Use it at your own risk! Aladdin Ghostscript 6.0 (which is used by SimplePost) is Copyright (C) 2000 Aladdin Enterprises. It comes with NO WARRANTY. How to use SimplePost ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SimplePost can be started from Workbench or Shell (however, no shell template exists at the moment). The gui should be self explaind (it has also some bubble helps), but here is a short describtion anywhy. After SimplePost has succesfully started (and it has found the initialisation files) it opens a window which consits of a row of buttons on the top, another row below of it, a listview of all available pages on the right and a big area where the the current selected page is displayed. To mark a part inside the display area press the left mouse button, move the mouse around until you are happy with the selected area and then release the button (press shift before pressing the lmb and you are able to mark the area in a non view aspect radio corrected way). However, currently you can only zoom in this area (by pressing the Zoom button in the top row). To open a postscript file use the "Project/Open..." menu entry or move an icon inside the main window. Saving the current displayed page as IFF-ILBM is possible with the "Project/Save as ILBM..." entry. To print one or more pages use the "Project/Print.." menu entry. In the listview select those pages which you want to print. Actually printing a page must be done by a seperate program (shell command). SimplePost creates a temporary IFF-ILBM picture and calls the print program with this picture as argument. Which program SimplePost uses can be configured in the "Print Command" line in SimplePost's Configuration Window (Settings/Configuration...). %s in the path is replaced with the filename of the temporary created IFF-ILBM graphics file. In this window you can alter also some other things like the path of the mentioned temporary files and the search path for fonts and data files (it is very important to set at least path where SimplePost can find the gs_init.ps file, otherwise it will not start at all!). Additionally the paper format and the different resolutions can be altered. Saving/Loading the settings is possible with the adequate menu entries in the "Settings" menu. Future ~~~~~~ - fix all bugs - direct use of the printer.device to print the pages - enable somehow the pdf support (it is in but actually I have no idea why it doesn't work atm) - ARexx Port - support of multitasking History ~~~~~~~ Version 0.1 (19.03.00) - initial release How can you reach me? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SimplePost probably has many bugs, so send bug reports to sebauer@t-online.de or Sebastian.Bauer@in.stud.tu-ilmenau.de Address: Sebastian Bauer Neustädter Str. 50 07768 Kahla Visit my homepage at http://home.t-online.de/home/sebauer/ (german version) http://home.t-online.de/home/sebauer/english.html (english version) Here you can find the latest version of SimplePost but also other things for Amiga, for example SimpleFind3 and SimplePac. Very great thanks goes to Marco Saupe for betatesting SimplePost. He also sent the included button images. __ / / __ / / Only Amiga makes it possible... \ \/ / \__/ ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 628 272 56.6% 01-Mar-00 15:03:32 SimplePost.info 794 345 56.5% 19-Mar-00 21:40:46 +open.ilbm 666 318 52.2% 19-Mar-00 21:40:46 +open.ilbm.info 664 347 47.7% 19-Mar-00 21:40:46 +prefs.ilbm 666 318 52.2% 19-Mar-00 21:40:46 +prefs.ilbm.info 818 529 35.3% 19-Mar-00 21:40:46 +print.ilbm 666 319 52.1% 19-Mar-00 21:40:46 +print.ilbm.info 800 367 54.1% 19-Mar-00 21:40:46 +save_ilbm.ilbm 666 318 52.2% 19-Mar-00 21:40:46 +save_ilbm.ilbm.info 790 461 41.6% 19-Mar-00 21:40:46 +zoom.ilbm 666 319 52.1% 19-Mar-00 21:40:46 +zoom.ilbm.info 766 412 46.2% 19-Mar-00 21:40:46 +zoom_large.ilbm 666 319 52.1% 19-Mar-00 21:40:46 +zoom_large.ilbm.info 766 415 45.8% 19-Mar-00 21:40:46 +zoom_normal.ilbm 666 319 52.1% 19-Mar-00 21:40:46 +zoom_normal.ilbm.info 13697 4826 64.7% 19-Mar-00 21:40:44 +FontMap 10441 4158 60.1% 19-Mar-00 21:40:36 +gs_btokn.ps 2832 1281 54.7% 19-Mar-00 21:40:36 +gs_ccfnt.ps 2534 1130 55.4% 19-Mar-00 21:40:36 +gs_ce_e.ps 18975 6807 64.1% 19-Mar-00 21:40:36 +gs_cff.ps 14476 4837 66.5% 19-Mar-00 21:40:36 +gs_cidfn.ps 9874 3194 67.6% 19-Mar-00 21:40:36 +gs_cmap.ps 5014 1927 61.5% 19-Mar-00 21:40:36 +gs_cmdl.ps 2454 1148 53.2% 19-Mar-00 21:40:36 +gs_dbt_e.ps 7750 3012 61.1% 19-Mar-00 21:40:36 +gs_diskf.ps 4542 1963 56.7% 19-Mar-00 21:40:36 +gs_dpnxt.ps 7444 2754 63.0% 19-Mar-00 21:40:36 +gs_dps.ps 4742 1901 59.9% 19-Mar-00 21:40:36 +gs_dps1.ps 7267 2577 64.5% 19-Mar-00 21:40:36 +gs_dps2.ps 2245 1106 50.7% 19-Mar-00 21:40:36 +gs_epsf.ps 3332 1478 55.6% 19-Mar-00 21:40:36 +gs_fform.ps 32746 11227 65.7% 19-Mar-00 21:40:36 +gs_fonts.ps 2966 1347 54.5% 19-Mar-00 21:40:36 +gs_il1_e.ps 2947 1308 55.6% 19-Mar-00 21:40:36 +gs_il2_e.ps 54159 18968 64.9% 19-Mar-00 21:40:38 +gs_init.ps 4112 1691 58.8% 19-Mar-00 21:40:38 +gs_kanji.ps 3461 904 73.8% 19-Mar-00 21:40:38 +gs_ksb_e.ps 5801 2239 61.4% 19-Mar-00 21:40:38 +gs_l2img.ps 24654 8329 66.2% 19-Mar-00 21:40:38 +gs_lev2.ps 3041 1461 51.9% 19-Mar-00 21:40:38 +gs_lgo_e.ps 2082 968 53.5% 19-Mar-00 21:40:38 +gs_lgx_e.ps 15318 5220 65.9% 19-Mar-00 21:40:38 +gs_ll3.ps 4163 1396 66.4% 19-Mar-00 21:40:38 +gs_mex_e.ps 2215 1138 48.6% 19-Mar-00 21:40:38 +gs_mgl_e.ps 2705 1237 54.2% 19-Mar-00 21:40:38 +gs_mro_e.ps 1875 900 52.0% 19-Mar-00 21:40:38 +gs_pdf_e.ps 8384 3009 64.1% 19-Mar-00 21:40:38 +gs_pdfwr.ps 4512 1856 58.8% 19-Mar-00 21:40:38 +gs_pfile.ps 1032 567 45.0% 19-Mar-00 21:40:38 +gs_rdlin.ps 24917 7655 69.2% 19-Mar-00 21:40:38 +gs_res.ps 23750 7549 68.2% 19-Mar-00 21:40:38 +gs_setpd.ps 11831 4021 66.0% 19-Mar-00 21:40:38 +gs_statd.ps 3409 1293 62.0% 19-Mar-00 21:40:38 +gs_std_e.ps 3268 1520 53.4% 19-Mar-00 21:40:38 +gs_sym_e.ps 3170 1366 56.9% 19-Mar-00 21:40:38 +gs_trap.ps 22362 7574 66.1% 19-Mar-00 21:40:40 +gs_ttf.ps 4347 1764 59.4% 19-Mar-00 21:40:40 +gs_typ32.ps 1799 876 51.3% 19-Mar-00 21:40:40 +gs_typ42.ps 5682 2368 58.3% 19-Mar-00 21:40:40 +gs_type1.ps 1853 917 50.5% 19-Mar-00 21:40:40 +gs_wan_e.ps 2700 1225 54.6% 19-Mar-00 21:40:40 +gs_wl1_e.ps 2698 1193 55.7% 19-Mar-00 21:40:40 +gs_wl2_e.ps 2716 1238 54.4% 19-Mar-00 21:40:40 +gs_wl5_e.ps 19630 6774 65.4% 19-Mar-00 21:40:42 +pdf_base.ps 24648 7778 68.4% 19-Mar-00 21:40:42 +pdf_draw.ps 21759 7197 66.9% 19-Mar-00 21:40:42 +pdf_font.ps 16800 6007 64.2% 19-Mar-00 21:40:42 +pdf_main.ps 12721 4390 65.4% 19-Mar-00 21:40:44 +pdf_ops.ps 2318 1142 50.7% 19-Mar-00 21:40:44 +pdf_sec.ps 4199 2008 52.1% 19-Mar-00 21:40:30 +ReadMe 831 308 62.9% 19-Mar-00 21:40:30 +ReadMe.info 1156392 591140 48.8% 19-Mar-00 21:40:34 +SimplePost 831 393 52.7% 19-Mar-00 21:40:34 +SimplePost.info -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 1679111 780938 53.4% 23-Mar-100 23:27:58 73 files