Ghostscript Ghostscript can display PostScript (Level 3) and PDF (1.3, ie. Acrobat 4.x) files on the screen, convert them to many raster formats, and print them on many (non-PostScript) printers, both black-and-white and color. It provides: An interpreter for the PostScript (TM) language, and A set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library) that implement the graphics capabilities that appear as primitive operations in the PostScript language, and An interpreter for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. There are couple of front ends available for Unix and VMS: Ghostview, gv, MGv and GSview..

Current Version:   7.00 (AFPL), 6.50 (GNU) License Type:   Copyrighted and two versions are available: Aladdin Ghostscript --- Aladdin Ghostscript Free Public License GNU Ghostscript --- GPL Commercial Licensing also available

Home Site: http://www.ghostscript.com/ http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html Source Code Availability:   Yes Available Binary Packages: Debian Package:   Yes, http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages RedHat RPM Package:   Yes, ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/ (ghostscript*) Other Packages:   Yes Targeted Platforms: UNIX, DOS, Windows, Mac, VMS, etc. Software/Hardware Requirements: None

Other Links: http://www.gnu.org/software/ghostscript/ghostscript.html Mailing Lists/USENET News Groups: gnu.ghostscript.bug (for GNU Ghostscript) comp.lang.postscript (Aladdin Ghostscript) User Comments: None See A Screen Shot? (Not Yet)

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