GNU ghostscript

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GNU ghostscript

http://gnu.org/software/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.

Documentation

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

Related Projects

• A2ps
• Apsfilter
• Enscript
• Fontutils
• Ghostview
• Gimp-print
• Hp2xx
• Lahelper
• Ted
• Tipograf

This is a GNU package:ghostscript

Download

Download version 8.71.1 (stable)
released on 9 September 2010

Categories

• Interface:command-line
• Interface:console
• Interface:library
• Printing:postscript
• Use:printing

Licensing

License	Verified by	Verified on	Notes
GPLv2	Kelly Hopkins	9 September 2010

Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)	Role
Tim Theisen	Contributor
and many others	Contributor
Didier Link	Maintainer
Peter Deutsch	Contributor
Russell Lang	Contributor
Thomas Merz	Contributor

Resources and communication

Audience	Resource type	URI
Bug Tracking,Developer	E-mail	mailto:bug-ghostscript@gnu.org
Support	Newsgroup	gnu.ghostscript.bug

Software prerequisites

Kind	Description
Weak prerequisite	zlib
Weak prerequisite	libjpeg
Weak prerequisite	libpng

This entry (in part or in whole) was last reviewed on 20 September 2010.

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