PostScript at Linux Primer Tutorial
PostScript page-layout language enables a user to tailor the use of their hardcopy (or softcopy) documents that end up in this format. PostScript has been around a long time and you may come across printers, particularly on Windows, that don’t output hardcopy. These printers are quite likely to have set up to output to a PostScript file, which will then be stored for later hardcopy printing or be part of an ongoing procedure the software will use (or maybe just gawk at, if on unix/Linux … chortle, chortle).
The gv viewer window uses X11 (XQuartz for Mac OS X Mavericks) GUI functionality which is all “fired up” from the Mac OS X application Terminal’s Bash command line environment in our tutorial today. Another Mac OS X incarnation of an application that uses X11 (XQuartz for Mac OS X Mavericks) GUI functionality is the stupendous, wonderful, marvellous, curiously refreshing (this is not a paid advertisement) GIMP and when you open a PDF file in GIMP you can see the File->Print to PostScript (or PDF) file functionality in action, and we have a snapshot to look at, regarding this, here.
So today we consider a PostScript file about Apache and open it with the gv viewer (via command like gv README.dsov.ps), show some functionality, and print it out.
Before that, using Mac OS X application Terminal, in Linux Bash session, we:
- Check for existence of gv on Linux (command line) via which gv … in our case nothing found, so we need next step … else skip a step
- Install gv via sudo port install gv via MacPorts
- Type gv … if working the gv PostScript viewer window opens up
- File->Quit … to exit
An interesting and good gv link is here.
A book about Linux which is really great and helped on this topic was Teach Yourself Linux by Steve Oualline and Eric Foster-Johnson.
Please enjoy our tutorial.
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