View .ps files with Google Chrome?

Question

I wonder if there is a way to view .ps files without loading / saving them when using Google Chrome?

Answer 1

There is currently no way to view .ps (PostScript) files in Google Chrome.

I can imagine two ways to get the desired result:

• Convert the postscript file to PDF using a third-party utility and use the PDF viewer built-in PDF tool (or PDF.js PDF Viewer Chrome Extension ) to display the PDF file. (this is relatively easy and can be implemented as a Chrome extension)

• Implement the PostScript parser and integrate it into PDF.js.

  • Specification: http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf
  • Limited proof of concept: http://logand.com/sw/wps/
  • Function request to the PDF.js tracker: https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/issues/1594 (this is closed, but if you deliver a high-quality patch, the patch can be accepted).

Answer 2

You can try using another open source browser. For example, the current version of the openSUSE package collection for 2018_12

http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

opens the .ps file in an external program in 2 clicks:

1. click displays the ps file as "source code"
2. in the view "Source Code" there is a button "Open in an external program ...", and after clicking this button, the viewer.ps application starts by default.

At the time of this writing, the SeaMonkey web browser also supported various old Java applets. Java applet page:

http://math.hws.edu/TMCM/java/xSortLab/

SeaMonkey also has a WYSIWYG HTML editor, which unfortunately generates HTML code up to HTML5, but for users with a non-IT background, it can still be very useful as a tool for creating documents based on a static website.

Thanks for reading my comment.