Ghostscript

Ghostscript is a suite of free software based on an interpreter of the Adobe Systems PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) page description languages. It is highly configurable and can be used as a:

Raster image processor (RIP) for raster computer printers, for instance, as an input filter of Berkeley printing system (lpd).

Raster image processor engine behind PostScript and Portable Document Format viewers.

File format converter, such as PostScript to Portable Document Format converter.

General purpose programming environment.

Ghostscript has been ported to many operating systems, including most Unix and Unix-like systems, Mac OS X, Virtual Memory System, Microsoft Windows, OS/2, and Mac OS.

Several graphical user interfaces (GUIs) have been written for use with Ghostscript which permit a user to view a PostScript or PDF file on screen, scroll, page forward and backward, and zoom the text as well as print single or multiple pages.

Ghostview runs under Unix/X11

GSView runs under Windows and OS/2

Originally developed by as GPL Ghostscript.

The GPL version is also used as the basis for a Display Ghostscript, which adds the functionality needed to fully support Display PostScript.

=Software based on Ghostscript =

*PDFCreator *[http://www.primopdf.com/ PrimoPDF]

=External links=

*[http://www.ghostscript.com/ Ghostscript community site, mailing lists, Bugzilla, CVS] *[http://www.artofcode.com/ Ghostscript copyright holder] *[http://www.artifex.com/ Ghostscript licensing and commercial support]

*[http://www.sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.phpgroup_id=1897 Ghostscript files on SourceForge] *[http://www.sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.phpgroup_id=3498 Ghostscript fonts on SourceForge] *[http://www.gyve.org/dgs/ Display Ghostscript]

=Ghostscript software (viewers) =

*[http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview download]