How do I open PS files?

[MrScott81]

Looking for a quick answer. I tried ghostview/ghostgum, but that doesn't seem to work for me...any other ways?

 

[Ness]

you mean a *.ps file? (file with extension ps)

 

[MrScott81]

yeah just a regular postscript file..my teacher put notes in *.ps files, instead of pdfs :roll:

 

[Ness]

Well, notepad/wordpad can open anything, so if it's just text, try that first.

 

[ElFenix]

with photoshop

oh, nm

 

[loup garou]

I'm guessing she's a mac user.
Ghostscript or ghostview wouldn't open it?

 

[fs5]

http://www.ps2pdf.com

covert it to pdf online, free.

 

[MrScott81]

no, im not a mac user, and nope, ghostview wouldn't open it...actually i have never gotten ghostview to work

 

[DougK62]

double click it.

 

[Bulk Beef]

Know anybody with Acrobat? They can use Distiller to convert it to pdf for you.

 

[silverpig]

there are a number of simple apps which can convert ps to pdf. I had a good command line one for linux... actually I used a dvi to pdf program too that was nice.

dvi2pdfmx file.dvi file.pdf

at the command line type thing. I'm sure there's a windows version for a ps to pdf program.

 

[Kilrsat]

Originally posted by: scottdog81
no, im not a mac user, and nope, ghostview wouldn't open it...actually i have never gotten ghostview to work

You need to install ghostscript, then install ghostview.

Ghostscript 8.14:
ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/AFPL/gs814/gs814w32.exe

Ghostview 4.6:
ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/ghostgum/gsv46w32.exe

 

[MrScott81]

Originally posted by: Kilrsat

Originally posted by: scottdog81
no, im not a mac user, and nope, ghostview wouldn't open it...actually i have never gotten ghostview to work

You need to install ghostscript, then install ghostview.

Ghostscript 8.14:
ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/AFPL/gs814/gs814w32.exe

Ghostview 4.6:
ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/ghostgum/gsv46w32.exe

yeah i tried that, didn't work

that online thing worked, though, thanks!

Also, I have adobe reader, but it wouldn't open them, it seems you need distiller also, which doesn't come with the free version.