A few postscripts (excuse the pun):

- There is indded a Mac version of GhostScript

- While the current 7.04 version of Aladdin GhostScript is strictly shareware, there are other GNU versions which are completely free. I have not used the GNU version. There is no masking on the conversion files to JPG, BMP etc (which is my main interest) nor have I seen it on PDF printed output.

- The main GhostScript page badly needs an index of compatibilty. If you use a PC make sure that the Zip fule you download contains the letters 'WIN'. There are so many dirrent versions of source code, Linux etc that you can waste time downloading the wrong version(s).

- The larger of the two downloads is GhostScript - about 6 Megs as I recall.

- You could use Print Screen to copy parts of a PDF file to the Clipboard, but the resolution is indifferent.

- The GhostScript writers are very cautious about all things legal and will not enable direct conversion to GIF. Not sure about earlier versions.

- One or both of the programs has a very comprehensive user manual. You can probably tell that I haven't bothered to look at it.

- The advertising industry uses PDF's as a convenient method of sending colour ads and Point od Sale materials to clients. In the last week I had to import some Acrobat (PDF) files into Power Point. The only way that I could do this (other than re-scanning was via GhostScript). At first glance there appears to lots of software to do this, but upon further investigation it transpires that they all require the full commercial version of Adobe Acrobat.

- The best image viewer that I've encountered is also FREE. INFANVIEW should be easy to find. It does conversions to scads of fornats, reduces images to 2 bit B&W (for SharpEye) and all the other guff that good image editors do. You can view all your image files in the same directory as thumbnails or you can flick through them at full size by repeatedly pressing the SPACEBAR, very handy if you have loads of scanned tunes, as I do.

Query please. Some archives on the Web bind their sheet music into multi-page volumes. The experiments I've done to date only allow me to create Page 1 in the converted format, even though GhostView appears to go through the full conversion process - a page at a time. Any clues would be appreciated.