Hi Kathy,
If memory serves me right you used to be from the Manchester area of the UK, is that correct?
With regard to whoosh's website, as you load it up, or before you do so, amend your settings/preferences, if you are using IBrowse then you need to go to the HTML/images part of settings and click the load images cycle options and change them so that the images are not loaded up, as they take up a lot of memory, and time, just click on use, and carry on, then you can change them back when you have finished with whoosh's site.
Right, with regard to GS8.60, which is the latest version released by the author, his worshipful "whoosh-ness", it requires that once you have all the necessary files from his site that you place them all in a main gs860 directory, or a directory that is assigned as GS860. There are command files that need to go in a "bin" directory, others that need to go in a "fonts", ".", "doc", "examples" and a "lib" & "resource" directory. Once you have all the files in whichever partition you want to put them in the directories I have mentioned, you need to assign them as a permanent feature in your user-startup, for example as:
assign GS860: xxdrivexx:GS860
assign GS860Data: GS860:lib
assign GS860Fonts: GS860:fonts
assign GS860Resource: GS860:Resource
assign Ghostscript: Turboprint:ghostscript/
The Ghostscript assign is just in case you wish to use the TurboPrint printing system, but you can use the GS860 more up to date Ghostscript printing capabilities by assigning to where the Ghostscript files are in the GS860 file structure.
I have used the Convert2PDF script and it works fine for text files, but does not save images in the file from FW'97, well not for me as yet, but I have used it very little for this, as I use the far superior capabilities of PageStream. PageStream can interpret many PDFs, with it's pdf.filter into the PageStream format, and save them as PDFs from any document it creates, though it only supports older PDFs for importing, so Acrobat8 documents it does not interpret properly.
The Convert2PDF macro needs a document to convert loaded on the screen, and once you highlight the Convert2PDF menu, it loads up a progress bar to show it is reading the file, then it brings up a requester asking you where you want to save the pdf you want to create, basically simplicity itself, but has the limitation of not saving images in the file, well not for me as yet, though it may depend on what file format of graphic you use, but I believe it may just not support graphics, but someone else may know better.
Oh, I should mention that the Convert2PDF script needs to be edited to show where your GS860 files are located. The section that needs to be amended is towards the bottom of the script file itself, but should be quite easy as long as you have a text editor handy, even "ED" will do.
Hope this helps
