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- Add some missing application tags and entities;

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- Mention print/ghostscript-gpl as the commonly used version of gs(1).
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<emphasis>expensive</emphasis> standard. Thankfully, Aladdin
Enterprises has a free &postscript; work-alike called
<application>Ghostscript</application> that runs with FreeBSD.
Ghostscript can read most &postscript; files and can render their
<application>Ghostscript</application> can read most &postscript; files and can render their
pages onto a variety of devices, including many brands of
non-PostScript printers. By installing Ghostscript and using a
non-&postscript; printers. By installing <application>Ghostscript</application> and using a
special text filter for your printer, you can make your
non &postscript; printer act like a real &postscript; printer.</para>
<para>Ghostscript is in the FreeBSD Ports Collection, if you
would like to install it from there. You can fetch, build, and
install it quite easily yourself, as well.</para>
<para><application>Ghostscript</application> is in the FreeBSD Ports Collection,
many versions are available, the most commonly used version
is <filename
role="package">print/ghostscript-gpl</filename>.</para>
<para>To simulate &postscript;, we have the text filter detect if it is
printing a &postscript; file. If it is not, then the filter will pass
the file directly to the printer; otherwise, it will use Ghostscript
the file directly to the printer; otherwise, it will use <application>Ghostscript</application>
to first convert the file into a format the printer will
understand.</para>
<para>Here is an example: the following script is a text filter
for Hewlett Packard DeskJet 500 printers. For other printers,
substitute the <option>-sDEVICE</option> argument to the
<command>gs</command> (Ghostscript) command. (Type <command>gs
<command>gs</command> (<application>Ghostscript</application>) command. (Type <command>gs
-h</command> to get a list of devices the current installation of
Ghostscript supports.)</para>
<application>Ghostscript</application> supports.)</para>
<programlisting>#!/bin/sh
#