Silent-Hunter
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This is a problem for me, because all of my ebooks are in PostScript format. Is there a way to make evince read ps files?
This is a problem for me, because all of my ebooks are in PostScript format. Is there a way to make evince read ps files?
Because PDF is Adobe's stupid corruption of PS.This is a problem for me, because all of my ebooks are in PostScript format. Is there a way to make evince read ps files?
I know that this is not a real fix but why not just use ps2pdf?
If it was available on the pandora it would be really easy.
Yeah.Well, what ever
I think there are some advantages to both formats.
They are valid, the evince on Fedora reads them.Evince should be able to read PS files just fine, according to http://live.gnome.org/Evince/SupportedDocumentFormats
What exactly is happening if you try to open them?
Are you sure they really are valid PS files? (what's the output of "file yourfile.ps"?)
File type PS document (application/postscript) is not supported
The_Silent_Treatment.ps: PostScript document text conforming DSC level 3.0, Level 2
What I don't understand is the Pandora people not compiling in support for a popular format.what's the output if you try to run "evince your.ps" in the terminal?
If it's something like "Cannot load backend 'psdocument'", then one could possibly just get the lib file and load evince with it.
If everything else fails, you could get ghostview (maybe there's even a PND for it) and use that for PS files. Not as comfortable, but better than nothing.
I beg to differ. PS was the definitive printer file format, back in the day. It's an open standard that has been supported by pretty much every printer driver, at least as late as 2000. I haven't had much cause to use it lately.PS is not that popular.
It's been an open format since 2008. It's ISO standard 32000-1.On the other hand, PDF is a closed format for which you technically need to pay a fee in order to have a license to write.
We have different definitions of popular here. The fact that nobody used it is an unfortunate case of marketing, because everyone, no matter what system, has had the ability to generate PS files rendered exactly as they see them in their documents for decades. Everyone had it, that to me makes it popular. Nobody even knew it existed though.And as I stated before, PS is not that popular.
The fact that nobody used it is an unfortunate case of marketing, because everyone, no matter what system, has had the ability to generate PS files rendered exactly as they see them in their documents for decades.