If you’ve ever received a PostScript file (perhaps from a friend using a Macintosh or Unix, or as part of a technical paper) and were in despair about how to go about opening it, here’s some hope. You don’t have to go out and buy Adobe PageMaker or CorelDRAW for an incredible sum of money. Download the excellent Aladdin GhostScript from http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/, this is an open-source PostScript interpreter that’s free for end-user use. It is available for many different platforms including Linux, the Macintosh, VMS, DOS and, inevitably, Win32. If you use Windows you should also get the graphical interface to GhostScript, called GSView, unless you’d much rather type PostScript commands at a prompt all day. As an added bonus, GSView can display Acrobat PDF documents for you.