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Run the file gs700w32.exe. This will start a setup wizard. Enter a reasonable installation directory, e.g. C:\Programs\Aladdin. All other default settings should be ok. Press Next until the setup is complete.
Run the file gsv40w32.exe. This will start another setup wizard. Enter an installation directory like C:\Programs\Ghostgum and press Next until the setup has finished. You will find a Ghostgum section in your Start menu which contains the links to the programs. Additionally, .ps and (if you selected this) .pdf files will be associated with Ghostview.
Note: If you intend to create .pdf files from your SGML sources, you probably want to use Ghostview as the default PDF viewer instead of Acrobat Reader. The latter locks all loaded files, so you can't change the sources and re-create the PDFs while they are displayed.
Configure Ghostview
Run GSView from the start menu. Another setup window will pop up and let you select the Ghostscript version that you want to use. The dialog box shows all installed versions of Ghostscript. Select the version 7.00 that you just installed and click Ok. The most recent versions of this program show a nag screen after startup which urges you to register. You should register if you wish to support further development of this tool, but the license explicitly does not require you to do so for noncommercial use.
Next, open the Media->Display Settings... dialog and set both Text alpha and Graphics alpha to 4. This will result in a more pleasant screen display (it does not affect print output).
Adjust PATH
Add the Ghostview dir to the PATH environment variable. This lets you start Ghostview easily from the command line and simplifies some of the lisp code that we will add later to the startup files. In the control panel, select the "Environment" tab in the System dialog. Append the Ghostview directory, e.g. c:\Programs\Ghostgum\gsview to the PATH environment variable in the upper panel (system variables) and press Set. Close the dialog by pressing Ok.
Ghostview configuration
Every NT user will have to perform Step 2 when she uses GSView for the first time. For the psgml-jade extension (see Install PSGML-Jade) to work properly, every user has to toggle off the Options->Save Last Directory menu command in GSView.