Let’s say you’re using Windows. Let’s say you want to view some PostScript or encapsulated PostScript and you do not have administrator privileges. You could install the Windows version of Evince. You could use gv, Evince or some other tool via Cygwin installed without admin.
An alternative (there are many) is to install IrfanView and its plugins and set it up to use GhostScript. First, we need to install GhostScript without admin. I talked about this once before, but these days the installer is 7zipped instead of zipped.
Downloaded:
s10020w64.exe
from https://ghostscript.com/releases/gsdnld.html. Renamed to have a 7z extension.
s10020w64.7z
The can double-click the file in Windows Explorer and it will open as an archive; can save contents of archive to some folder. Let’s say it was:
C:\Users\darren\installs\gs10
Now, install IrfanView, also in userspace, and then install the plugins. Can use the simple Windows installers for both. For IrfanView, choose ‘For current user only’ and then specify a user-writeable folder, say
C:\Users\darren\installs
The installer will create the IrfanView folder inside that one. When running the plugin installer, tell it where IrfanView is. In this case:
C:\Users\darren\installs\IrfanView
And then it is installed, all ready to use as a useful image viewer (and for some processing etc).
Run IrfanView. Go:
Options > Properties/Settings > Plugins > PostScript options > Custom path > copy full path to GS DLL from file explorer and paste here
For example, in this case the full path to the DLL , including the DLL itself, is:
C:\Users\darren\installs\gs10\bin\gsdll64.dll
Set other values as needed — eg paper size and so on.
Select Ok > OK
You can add GS to your path if you like.
Done. Now can open EPS and PS in IrfanView as you would PNG or JPG etc.
Very good for EPS files.
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