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authorL Peter Deutsch <lpd@ghostscript.com>2000-06-21 17:10:41 +0000
committerL Peter Deutsch <lpd@ghostscript.com>2000-06-21 17:10:41 +0000
commit33f6f165e133b84c5556e508447e28ef714e25af (patch)
tree146368392d4febd78d705f3822745fef015c6044
parent8122966ed7e017b7b39c0872bf65e57786c59177 (diff)
downloadghostpdl-33f6f165e133b84c5556e508447e28ef714e25af.tar.gz
Updates documentation to reflect the use of the GSC environment variable to
set the name of the executable for ps2pdf. git-svn-id: http://svn.ghostscript.com/ghostscript/trunk@519 a1074d23-0009-0410-80fe-cf8c14f379e6
-rw-r--r--gs/doc/Ps2pdf.htm29
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/gs/doc/Ps2pdf.htm b/gs/doc/Ps2pdf.htm
index 23aafc7fc..335fb2794 100644
--- a/gs/doc/Ps2pdf.htm
+++ b/gs/doc/Ps2pdf.htm
@@ -112,24 +112,15 @@ line.
<p>
All of these scripts actually call a script named <b><tt>ps2pdfwr</tt></b>
-or <b><tt>ps2pdfxx</tt></b>. Normally, you will not need to do anything
-with this script. The Unix <b><tt>ps2pdfwr</tt></b> script assumes that the
-Ghostscript executable is named <b><tt>gs</tt></b>; the DOS and MS Windows
-<b><tt>ps2pdfxx.bat</tt></b> script assumes the executable is named
-<b><tt>gswin32c</tt></b>. On DOS or MS Windows, if the executable has a
-different name, you must edit the <b><tt>ps2pdfxx.bat</tt></b> script file:
-look for the line that says
-
-<blockquote><b><tt>
-set PS2PDFGS=gswin32c
-</tt></b></blockquote>
-
-<p>
-and change it to
-
-<blockquote><b><tt>
-set PS2PDFGS=</tt></b><em>executable_name</em>
-</blockquote>
+or <b><tt>ps2pdfxx</tt></b>. The Unix <b><tt>ps2pdfwr</tt></b> script
+assumes that the Ghostscript executable is named <b><tt>gs</tt></b>; it is
+unlikely that you will need to change this. The DOS and MS Windows
+<b><tt>ps2pdfxx.bat</tt></b> script uses the value of the
+<b><tt>GSC</tt></b> environment variable, if defined, as the name of the
+executable; otherwise the script assumes the executable is named
+<b><tt>gswin32c</tt></b>. So in these environments, if the executable has a
+different name, you must set <b><tt>GSC</tt></b> to the name of the
+executable.
<hr>
@@ -152,7 +143,7 @@ converted to bitmaps.
<dd>Sets the color space used for fill, stroke, text, and imagemask.
<em>device_color_space</em> may be <b><tt>/DeviceGray</tt></b>,
<b><tt>/DeviceRGB</tt></b>, or <b><tt>/DeviceCMYK</tt></b>; the default
-value is <b><tt>/DeviceRGB</tt></b>. (Eventually this will be unnecessary,
+value is <b><tt>/DeviceRGB</tt></b>. (Eventually this will be unnecessary,
since colors specified in any color space will always be written out in that
color space rather than being converted.)