I did install gsview on Ubuntu:
I downloaded package called:
gsview-4.8-2.lvn6.i386.rpm
from this website:
and applied to it the command:
sudo alien gsview-4.8-2.lvn6.i386.rpm
This command created the Debian package:
gsview_4.8-3_i386.deb
Then:
sudo dpkg -i gsview_4.8-3_i386.deb
But this is not the end of the story, because I also have to
configure ghostscript. I find that gsview-4.8 gives the best quality
of font display (crisp fonts) when used with ghostscript 8.15.4.
Installed on Ubuntu is ghostscript 8.61, which apears inferior in
terms of font quality. Therefore I decided to compile the shared object
ghostscript 8.15.4 for the local installation in my home folder:
./configure --prefix=/home/andrei/usr/
I needed to install the following additional packages, for it to
compile:
build-essential libjpeg62-dev zlib1g-dev libpng libpng12-dev libgtk1.2-dev libgtk2.0-dev
(not sure about libgtk2.0-dev, if it is needed...)
(not sure is I need libpng, perhaps libpng12-dev would be enough...)
Then I executed:
make so
make soinstall
Now I have to think about fonts. I just copied from the system:
mkdir /home/andrei/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts
cp -a /usr/share/fonts/type1 /home/andrei/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/
Then I installed it, and run it. In Options -> Advanced Configure
selected Ghostscript Shared Object:
/home/andrei/usr/lib/libgs.so.8
and included the path:
/home/andrei/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/type1/gsfonts/
Then it worked, except for resizing lead to a crush complaining about
the unknown paper size a4. I corrected this by going
to Options -> Advanced Configure and entering into Ghostscript Options:
-sPAPERSIZE=letter
This apparently solved the problem...
Andrei.
