About:
Ghostscript is a processor for PostScript and PDF files. It can rasterize these files to a wide variety of printers, devices for screen preview, and image file formats. Since applications tend to prepare pages for printing in a high-level format such as PostScript, most Unix users with low-level bitmap printers, such as inkjets, use GhostScript as part of the printing process. In addition, Ghostscript is capable of converting PostScript files, functionality comparable to Adobe Acrobat Distiller, but on the command line. In addition, Ghostscript is used for file import and viewing by a great many other applications, including xv, ImageMagick, gimp, and xdvi. Several GUI wrappers for viewing PostScript and PDF files exist, including GSview, ghostview, gv, ggv, and kghostview. This is far from a comprehensive list.

Release focus: Minor feature enhancements

Changes:
This is a maintenance release which contains numerous bugfixes and improvements, particularly in the area of PDF 1.6 handling.

Author:
Raph Levien [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.34/10.00 (7 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.ghostscript.com/
Tar/GZ:
https://sourceforge.net/[..]1897&package_id=108733&release_id=617197
Tar/BZ2:
https://sourceforge.net/[..]1897&package_id=108733&release_id=617197
Changelog:
https://sourceforge.net/[..]otes.php?release_id=617197&group_id=1897
Debian package:
http://packages.debian.org/gs-gpl
Purchase:
http://www.artifex.com/
Mirror site:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ghostscript/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		6 - Mature
[Environment]		Console (Text Based), MacOS X, Other Environment, Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications
[Intended Audience]		Developers, End Users/Desktop
[License]		Aladdin Free Public License (AFPL), OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		BeOS, MacOS, MacOS X, Microsoft :: Windows :: Windows 95/98/ME, OS Independent, OS/2, Other OS, POSIX
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Multimedia :: Graphics, Multimedia :: Graphics :: Graphics Conversion, Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers, Software Development :: Interpreters

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	8.63	04-Aug-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
8.63	Minor feature enhancements	04-Aug-2008 20:42
8.62	Minor bugfixes	04-Mar-2008 12:59
8.61	Minor bugfixes	27-Dec-2007 00:59
8.60	Major feature enhancements	02-Aug-2007 12:36
8.56	Minor feature enhancements	22-Mar-2007 20:52
8.54	Minor feature enhancements	27-May-2006 07:34
8.53	Minor feature enhancements	17-Nov-2005 14:56
8.51	Minor feature enhancements	22-Apr-2005 16:20
8.50	Major feature enhancements	10-Jan-2005 16:34
8.14	Minor bugfixes	23-Feb-2004 13:49

 Articles referencing this project

Debian: New ghostscript packages fix arbitrary code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Mar 24th 2008 06:55 SuSE: New ghostscript packages fix remote code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Tue, Mar 4th 2008 10:56 Red Hat: Updated ghostscript packages fix a security issue by Patrick Lenz , in Security Tue, Mar 4th 2008 10:45 Red Hat: Updated ghostscript packages fix a temporary file isse by Patrick Lenz , in Security Fri, Sep 30th 2005 04:14

Red Hat: Updated ghostscript packages fix vulnerability by Patrick Lenz , in Security Tue, Jun 3rd 2003 10:37 Red Hat: Printing exposes system files to reading. by Patrick Lenz , in Security Fri, Nov 2nd 2001 02:05 Printing Software by Grant Taylor , in Category Reviews Sat, Sep 15th 2001 00:00

 Comments

[»] This is wonderful!
by Charlton Rose - Jan 19th 2000 00:05:32

I am so amazed that a group of individuals could get together and produce such a useful piece of work -- and then just give it away! Your Unix system is definitely not complete until it has the latest version of GhostScript.

Don't forget that if you use any recent version of RedHat, your copy of GhostScript is probably out of date.

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