Here is the list of 5 free Postscript file viewer software for Windows.
Postscript file (.ps extension) is developed in Postscript computer programming language. It contains images and texts in vector and raster form. It provides an interface of the document in the same way as it would appear on a paper after printing.
These 5 postscript file viewers will let you view Postscript files easily. All these software are very reliable, and simple Postscript file viewers. They all have some different and unique features. Let’s go over all these software in detail, starting with GSview, my favorite.
GSview
GSview is a small software with a simple user-interface. It provides many page formats to view Postscript files, such A4, A3, A5, B4, B5, etc. It can stretch into full screen mode to view the file. It can also rotate the Postscript file.
Some other key features of this software are:
- It can convert ps files into eps file format (if the file contains only a single page).
- Other file formats it can open are: eps, epi, pdf, and arn.
- Its interface is available in 11 different languages.
- Its setup file size is less than 2 MB.
Evince
Evince is another free Postscript Viewer. It provides navigation pane on the left side, and page view on the right side on its interface to view Postscript files. The navigation pane shows Thumbnail view of all the pages. The page view lets you view any page in detail.
Some of the features of this software are:
- It provides Continuous, and Dual mode to view the files.
- The page can be rotated clockwise, and anticlockwise in this Postscript viewer.
- It also lets you view the page in full screen, and presentation mode.
Other input format it can read are CBR, PDF, TIFF, etc. It has many more useful features; you can read its full review here.
Free Postscript Viewer
Free Postscript Viewer is a simple Postscript viewer. This software lets you open Postscript file only.
Its key features are:
- It lets you easily rotate and flip Postscript files.
- It can convert Postcript file into image formats, such as: JPG, PNG, and GIF.
- It also provides shortcut to edit the Postscript file in MS Paint.
Its setup file size is 15 MB.
EPS Viewer
EPS Viewer provides limited features, but with a nice and clean user interface to view Postscript files. The unique thing about this software is that all its key features are available on its interface, such as: Setting page height and width, rotating, zooming, converting.
Some other key features of this software are:
- It can convert the Postscript file into image formats (jpg, png, gif, tiff, and bmp).
- EPS is another file format that you can view using this software. (EPS stands for an encapsulated Postscript file which is similar to Postscript files. You can view this kind of file using these free software.)
- It is a small software; the setup file is only 9 MB in size.
IrfanView
IrfanView has different technique to open Postscript file. Firstly, you have to download, and install Ghostscript software (download it from here). After that, you need to download Postscript plugin, and copy it in its (IrfanView) Plugins folder to open Postscript files (download it from here). Then, you can view Postscript files using this software.
It is the only portable software in this list and it can also convert Postscript files into many other file formats, such as JPG, PDF, PNG, BMP, etc.
For full review, click here.
