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Thread #45197   Message #667753
Posted By: JohnInKansas
12-Mar-02 - 02:15 PM
Thread Name: Tech: Converting PDF Sheet Music
Subject: RE: Tech: Converting PDF Sheet Music
Anyone wanting to know more about GhostScript and GSView can download the Ghostscript User Manual from FTP.

There are two versions posted, and the latest will probably show as gs5man_e.pdf. Right click it and select copy to file.

The manual was about a 3 minute download on my POTS connection, and is about 26 pages. It gives a good summary of a lot of things you can do with it, but a warning is in order that "it ain't that complicated" if you plan to stick to the simple stuff.

Re: printing past the first page. - PostScript, of which PDF is a subset language, processes documents one page at a time. In GSView, you may have to manually select "next page" and print each page separately(?). A common failure, in my experience, when importing downloaded PDF, EPS, etc files into GSView is the error message that says "page breaks not properly marked," indicating that some distiller setups do produce "defective" multisheet documents.

John