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GNU ghostscript - Interpreter for the Postscript and PDF graphics languages

An interpreter for the Postscript language and the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), a set of C procedures (the Ghostscript lib) that implements the graphics capabilities that appear as primitive operations in the Postscript language and in PDF, and a set of utility programs that include the ability to convert PostScript to PDF. Currently it supports PostScript level 2 and PDF versions 1.0 through 1.2.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.ghostscript.com/doc/gnu/
Source tarball http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ghostscript/ghostscript-8.01.tar.gz
Version 8.01 (stable) released on 2004-02-17
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is a GNU package.

Documentation
User reference manual available on line at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/merz.htm; User introduction available from http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/gnu/7.05/New-user.htm; Developers' guide to Ghostscript source code available at http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/gnu/7.05/Source.htm.
Support contacts

Help Newsgnu.ghostscript.bug
Developer List<bug-ghostscript@gnu.org>
Bug List<bug-ghostscript@gnu.org>

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
  • L. Peter Deutsch
Contributors
  • Russell Lang
  • Thomas Merz
  • Tim Theisen
  • and many others

Related information

Interfacescommand line, terminal, library
Source languagesC
Weak prerequisiteslibjpeg, libpng, zlib
Related programsfontutils, Ghostview, a2ps, enscript

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-01-31
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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