GNU GNU ghostscript

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 3 and PDF versions 1.0 through 1.6.

Last updated 25 Aug, 2005


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Leadership
  • Jose Marchesi - Maintainer
  • Russell Lang - Contributor
  • Thomas Merz - Contributor
  • Tim Theisen - Contributor
  • and many others - Contributor
Requirements
  • libjpeg (Weak Prerequisite)
  • libpng (Weak Prerequisite)
  • zlib (Weak Prerequisite)
Related Projects

Enscript , Ghostview , Gimp-print, Lahelper, Ted, Tipograf, a2ps, apsfilter, fontutils , hp2xx

Versions

8.64.
8.55

8.55 stable released on 2006-11-30

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User and Developer documentation is available from http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/current/

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