interpreter for the PostScript (TM) language, with the ability to convert PostScript language files to many raster formats, view them on displays, and print them on printers that don't have PostScript language capability built in; A set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library) that implement the graphics capabilities that appear as primitive operations in the PostScript language. For further information read the Ghostscript documentation

AFPL Ghostscript is distributed with a license called the Aladdin Ghostscript Free Public License that allows free use, copying, and distribution by end users, but does not allow commercial distribution. AFPL Ghostscript was previously known as Aladdin Ghostscript. GNU Ghostscript is distributed with the GNU General Public License, which allows free use, and free copying and redistribution under certain conditions (including, in some cases, commercial distribution).

You do not have a math co-processor, right? You will need to add the alternative math emulator to your kernel; you do this by adding the following to your kernel config file and it will be compiled in. options GPL_MATH_EMULATE You first need to edit the /etc/sysconfig (or /etc/rc.conf, see rc.

Discussion about AFPL Ghostscript and GSview can be found in the USENET newsgroup comp.lang.postscript Discussion about GNU Ghostscript and Ghostview can be found in the USENET newsgroup gnu.ghostscript.bug

GNU Ghostscript is included in the GNU distribution from the Free Software Foundation; e-mail to gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu for information on ordering their tapes, floppies, or CD-ROMs. Ghostscript is generally included in less-commercial Unix systems such as Linux and BSDI, and also appears on some freeware CD-ROMs.

Because of actions by CompuServe and Unisys related to a patent that claims to cover the data compression method used in GIF, anyone who distributes any new GIF software (even readers, but definitely software that creates GIF files) after January 1, 1995 may be subject to legal action if they do not get a license from Unisys, and/or unpredictable payment requirements if they do get such a license. I cannot run the risk of having this happen.

It is a free implementation of a Display PostScript server based on the GNU Ghostscript program developed by Aladdin Enterprises and now owned by artofcode LLC. one point, GNUstep was using this for display purposes. However the development of DGS has stopped as it is too difficult to maintain and no one wanted to work on it. Now we are using other means of drawing.

If you are running 32-bit Windows you don't want a DOS version. Ghostscript for MS-Windows includes a Windows console mode executable named gswin32c.exe. The last 16-bit DOS version was either GS 2.61 or 3.33. The last 32-bit DOS extended version was GS 5.10.

There are two main user interfaces: The GSview GUI Open the PS file in GSview, select Convert... from the File menu, select pdfwrite as the Device and other options to taste. This works well, and may be convenient for occasional conversions, but it is overkill. The ps2pdf command Ghostscript includes ps2pdf.bat for Windows, although the installation does not automatically make the command available. It is necessary to include the Ghostscript lib and bin directories in the Windows execution path.

Unprotected CJK fonts work on Ghostscript just fine. It is not possible to install CSL (Adobe's CID Support Library) but most PostScript programs don't need it. CSL simulates OCF structures for the jobs that assume OCF fonts on the interpreter and manipulate them directly. Heisei and KozMin CIDFonts are unprotected proprietary fonts developed by Adobe Systems. The installer that comes with the fonts runs on Mac and installs the fonts to a network printer using PAP protocol.

Is it easy to port OPENSTEP programs to GNUstep? It is probably easy for simple programs. There are some portability tools to make this easier, or rewrite the Makefiles yourself. You will also have to translate the NIB files (if there are any) to GNUstep model files using the nib2gmodel program. See the portability page for details. How about porting between Cocoa and GNUstep? It's easier from GNUstep to Cocoa than Cocoa to GNUstep.

Portable Document Format is a file format which contains forward and backward links. It is not a stream format like PostScript. You cannot pipe PDF files to the stdin of Ghostscript. Instead you must either give the PDF filename on the command line, or use it as the argument of the Ghostscript run command. Ghostscript 8.00 and later can read piped PDF by copying to a temporary file.

Item #1 under the question Why is Qt not distributed under the GNU Public License (GPL)? above applies to this question also.

I'm a new convert from Win98se to linux. I have hundreds of home generated ms publisher 2002 .pub files which i really can't afford to lose. Will they work in scribus or is all my work so far down the drain? I would be very grateful for any help please. See this detailed answer: Proprietary DTP Formats and http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Import_Publisher_to_Scribus

Also, make sure gs386.exe exists and is in your PATH. If you are running Mup from MS-DOS directly or from a DOS prompt under Windows, make sure you installed the DOS version of Ghostscript, not the Windows version. If you are using Mupmate, or Winmup, make sure you installed the Windows version of Ghostscript, not the MS-DOS version. Mup handles most common non-ASCII characters.