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Copyright (C) 1990, 1992 Aladdin Enterprises. All rights reserved.
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Distributed by Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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This file is part of Ghostscript.
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Ghostscript is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. No author or distributor accepts responsibility
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to anyone for the consequences of using it or for whether it serves any
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particular purpose or works at all, unless he says so in writing. Refer
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to the Ghostscript General Public License for full details.
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Everyone is granted permission to copy, modify and redistribute
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Ghostscript, but only under the conditions described in the Ghostscript
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General Public License. A copy of this license is supposed to have been
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given to you along with Ghostscript so you can know your rights and
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responsibilities. It should be in a file named COPYING. Among other
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things, the copyright notice and this notice must be preserved on all
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copies.
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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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This file, psfiles.doc, describes the .ps files distributed with
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Ghostscript, other than fonts.
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For an overview of Ghostscript and a list of the documentation files, see
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README.
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System files
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gs_init.ps - Ghostscript reads this automatically when it starts up. It
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contains definitions of many standard procedures and initialization for a
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wide variety of things.
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gs_fonts.ps - gs_init.ps reads this in. It initializes Ghostscript's font
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machinery and provides some utility procedures that work with fonts.
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gs_statd.ps - gs_init.ps reads this in. It creates a dummy statusdict and
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some other environmental odds and ends for the benefit of P*stScr*pt files
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that really want to be printed on a LaserWriter.
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gs_2asc.ps - This utility file helps extract the ASCII text from
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PostScript source files. It redefines many operators. For more
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information, see the comments in the file.
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gs_dps1.ps - gs_init.ps reads this in if the dps feature is included in
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the configuration. It provides support for various Display PostScript and
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Level 2 features.
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sym__enc.ps - the Symbol encoding, loaded only if referenced.
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Art
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---
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chess.ps - A black-and-white chessboard.
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golfer.ps - A gray-scale picture of a stylishly dressed woman swinging a
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golf club.
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escher.ps - A colored version of a hexagonally symmetric Escher drawing of
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interlocking butterflies. Can be printed on monochrome devices, with
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somewhat less dramatic results.
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cheq.ps - A chessboard "font" used by chess.ps (obtained from the Adobe
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file server).
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snowflak.ps - A rectangular grid of intricate colored snowflakes.
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(Renders very slowly.)
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colorcir.ps - A set of nested ellipses made up of colored bars.
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tiger.ps - A dramatic colored picture of a tiger's head.
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Utilities
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For more information on these utility programs, see the comments at the
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beginning of the files.
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bdftops.ps - a utility for converting BDF fonts to outline form: see
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fonts.doc for more information.
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decrypt.ps - a utility for decrypting the eexec section of a font.
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gslp.ps - a utility for doing "line printing" of plain text files.
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impath.ps - a utility for reconstructing outlines from bitmap images,
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used by bdftops.
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landscap.ps - a file that you can put in front of your own files to get
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them rendered in landscape mode.
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pstoppm.ps - a utility for rendering PostScript files onto PPM (bitmap)
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files.
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ps2image.ps - a utility for converting an arbitrary PostScript file into a
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.ps file consisting of just PostScript bitmaps, one per page.
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wrfont.ps - a utility for writing out an unprotected Type 1 font, such as
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the standard Ghostscript fonts.
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Odds and ends
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empty.ps - an empty file.
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lines.ps - a test program for line joins and caps.
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pcharstr.ps - a program to print out the CharStrings and Subrs in a Type 1
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font.
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ppath.ps - a couple of utilities for printing out the current path, for
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debugging.
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prfont.ps - a program to print a font catalog.
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quit.ps - a file containing just the word "quit".
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traceop.ps - a memory usage monitor for debugging.
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type1ops.ps - the Type 1 font format opcodes.
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unprot.ps - a program to disable access checking.
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