9.3.3  Viewing the Postscript form 

The form is streamed as Postscript from the www server. It can be previewed and redirected to a printer 

by a viewer program that can read Postscript. Such programs include 

Ghostscript

 and 

Adobe Acrobat

. 

The Postscript file can also be printed by copying it directly to a printer port. This is 

not 

the same as 

loading the Postscript file into a word processor and printing it. 

Ghostscript is free to use although registering and support is requested. It can be downloaded from  

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/index.htm

. You also need 

GSView

 which is a Windows front 

end to Ghostscript. You can download it from the same place as Ghostscript. 

Adobe Acrobat is a commercial program. Do not confuse Adobe Acrobat with 

Adobe Reader

. The 

Reader is free for downloading from 

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/

 whereas Adobe Acrobat is 

not. Adobe Acrobat supports both reading and writing Postscript and Portable Document Format (PDF). 

Below is a picture generated by the JSP listing in chapter 9.3.2 . The Postscript file has been opened with 

GSview. 

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