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How to Install
Ghostscript 7.03 + Ghostview 4.1 + Japanese Kanji fonts

1. Environment:

Windows 95 / 98 / ME / 2000 / Windows NT 4.0
Recommended: CPU 100 MHz, minimum 16M Memory (32M in case of NT)

2. Source:

The following packages from the original ghostscript distribution are required:
(If these links are slow you can get them from any mirror archive or other ftp archives close to you.)

You also need this additional Japanese fonts package:
(I'm not sure if you can find this package elsewhere, so be patient when downloading!)

3. Installation Scripts/Guide:

  1. Put ALL the *.exe and/or *.zip files together in a temporary folder.

  2. Click on self-extracting gs703w32.exe file and follow the instructions. Don't forget to check fonts to be installed. It will automatically install ghostscript and the required latin fonts.

  3. Click on self-extracting gsv41w32.exe file and follow the instructions. Set the install path for ghostview to be: C:\gs\Ghostgum. It will automatically install ghostview.

  4. When you are done, the above mentioned packages are installed in the following directories: 
            C:\gs\gs7.03
        C:\gs\Ghostgum
        C:\gs\fonts

  5. Use winzip or other zip utilities to extract gs703knj.zip in the C:\gs directory.
    Answer YES when it asks to overwrite the existing Fontmap file (to enable using Kanji fonts). This will
    1. backup your original Fontmap file and
    2. add Japanese fonts to your fonts folder and
    3. add Fontmap.KNJ file to your lib folder and
    4. Rewrites your Fontmap file to be able to use Japanese Kanji fonts.
    If you answer NO, then you will need to move or copy the file C:\gs\gs7.03\lib\Fontmap.KNJ to C:\gs\gs7.03\lib\Fontmap.GS manually or edit your C:\gs\gs7.03\lib\Fontmap file and change the line Fontmap.GS to Fontmap.KNJ in it.

  6. Please note that this installation can only display Japanese Postscript files. It CANNOT display Japanese PDF.

  7. That is all.

  8. Please contact far@enel.ucalgary.ca for problems related to this install guide.
    Contact the authors of the original packages for bug reports.

Other Notes on compiling and installing ghostscript:
Go to HTML & CGI Lecture page.

This page was created by B.H. Far.

far e-mail enel.ucalgary.ca

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