And finally there always was a free Ghostscript for Mac OS 9.

This Ghostscript interface is working quite well, and additionally looking very good.

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/macos/index.htm

You can exchange the GhostScript Library with a newer version than the included 6.x

Sadly the latest MacGS shhlib 8.51 from 2005 (with Carbonized shlib) is not working at my G4 at all:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghostscript/files/AFPL%20Ghostscript/8.51/

The last version that is working without problems is the 8.0 from 2002:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghostscript/files/AFPL%20Ghostscript/8.00/

But that version is no real improvement over Acrobat/Acrobat Reader 5.05

The question is if some experianced coder may have a look, if compiling the recent

GPL Ghostscript 9.10 for using it with MacGSview from above is easily possible? Or at least why the 8.51 does not find the shlib when put to MacGSView. That way we could immediatly have Mac OS 9 back at displaying modern PDF 1.7 and up! I consider the broken PDF usage as one of the biggest problems with Mac OS 9, and it is perhaps very easy to solve this.

So, please if you can code, or know somebody who can, have a look!