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- 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 Postscripthtml2ps 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)]

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