Postscript
/
PDF
readers |
Recent
versions
of
Ghostscript/Ghostview
are
fairly
easy
to
set
up.
For
old
klunky
versions,
see
Installing
Ghostscript
/
Ghostview
for
Win32
-
a
guide
by
Nelson
Beebe.Aladdin
Ghostscript
v6.0
includes
gsprint.exe
-
a
program
which
allows
twoup
printing
(two
pages
per
physical
page). |
Acrobat
File
Reader
from
Adobe [f2.org copy of Acrobat Reader 5.1 - English for Windows 98, Me, NT 4.0, 2000, and XP (8.5 Mbyte)] |
| PDF
Generators |
PrimoPDF
lets
you
generate
PDF
documents
from
any
windows
application
by
'printing'
to
the
PrimoPDF
printer
driver.
Lots
of
optimisation
features.[f2.org copy of PrimoPDF for Win98/ME/NT/Vista (14 Mbyte)] |
| HTML
to
Postscript | html2ps
is
a
perl-script
which
converts
HTML
to
postscript.
There
are
options
to
print
multiple
pages
per
physical
page,
number
pages
etc. |
MS Word viewer |
Microsoft
has
free
Word
Viewers
which
(surprise!)
allow
you
to
view
MS
Word
documents.
The
viewers
don't
run
macros,
so
they're
MS-virus-free! [f2.org copy of Word 97/2000 Viewer for Windows 95/98/NT (3.8 Mbyte)] |
MS PowerPoint viewer |
Microsoft
has
a
free
PowerPoint
Viewer. [f2.org copy of PowerPoint 97/2000/2002 Viewer for Windows 95/98/2K/NT (2.8 Mbyte)] |
| Word
processing |
OpenOffice
is
a
free
open-source
office
suite
for
Windows/Linux/Solaris,
based
on
Sun's
StarOffice
6.0
code.
NB!
Downloads
are
around
80 Mbyte.
Star
Office
from
Sun
Computers
is
a
free
alternative
to
MS
Office
products.
Also
runs
under
Linux.Note:
[2003-01-31]
Sun
no
longer
supports
Star
Office
5.2.
It's
successor,
Star
Office
6.0,
is
not
free
for
personal
use.
Old
versions
of
Star
Office
5.2
can
be
found
on
the
net
under
the
filenames - so-5_2-ga-bin-windows-en.exe
(Windows),
- so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin
(Linux),
- so-5_2-ga-bin-solsparc-en.bin
(Solaris)
The
FTP
site
ftp://ftp.curtin.edu.au/pub/StarOffice/
has
the
files.
NB!
Downloads
are
around
80 Mbyte. |
AbiWord
from
AbiSource
is
another
free
word
processing
system |
| Print
graph
/
music paper |
Graph
Paper
Printer
by
Dr
Philippe
Marquis
lets
you
print
plain
grids,
graph
paper
(some
lines
drawn
heavier
than
others),
polar
grids,
music
sheets
etc. [f2.org copy of Graph Paper Printer 3.31 (freeware) (355 Kbyte)]Note:
More
recent
versions
of
Graph
Paper
Printer
are
shareware. |
| PalmDoc
Ebook
reader |
DocReader
by
Mike
Pickering
lets
you
read
PDB
(PalmDoc
Ebook
format)
documents
and
convert
them
to
text. [f2.org copy of DocReader 0.69 (257 Kbyte)] |