Viewing and Printing Postscript Documents in Netscape

on the SunRays in Fisher Hall


Note: If following these instructions does not work for you, please contact me (trolson@mtu.edu) so I can help you and revise the instructions.

Viewing and Printing from Netscape

The following steps will set your Netscape preferences so that you can view a postscript file (using ghostview) by simply clicking on the link. Then you can use the Print command in ghostview to get a hard copy.
  1. Under the Edit pull-down menu, choose Preferences.

  2. Choose the category Navigator and subcategory Applications
    (Subcategories appear when you click the triangle to the left of Navigator)

  3. Look through the applications to find something like ``image/*.ps'' or ``postscript'' or ``Postscript Document''. Select that application by clicking on it.

  4. Click the Edit button (under the applications list) to begin editing that application.

  5. The suffixes box should include ``ps,eps,eps.Z'' (possibly among others in a list separated with commas). If the ``ps'' is not there, be sure to type it in now (without the quotes).

  6. Under ``Handled By'', click the toggle button for Application and type in ``ghostview %s'' (the only space is between ``ghostview'' and ``%s'').

  7. Click OK to complete the editing and OK to close the Preferences box.

  8. You are done. Next time you click on a file with a ``.ps'' tag, ghostview should automatically display the file. (You may need to re-load Netscape to reset the new Preferences.)


Tamara Olson
trolson@mtu.edu