Q1135839
Sign in to saveGhostscript is a suite of software based on an interpreter for Adobe Systems' PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) page description languages. Its main purposes are the rasterization of documents in these languages, the display or printing of document pages, and conversion between PostScript and PDF files.
Key facts
- Software.name
- Ghostscript
- Software.logo
- Ghostscript.svg
- Software.author
- L. Peter Deutsch
- Software.developer
- Artifex Software
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.operating system
- Cross-platform
- Software.genre
- PostScript and PDF interpreter
- Software.license
- Dual-licensed (GNU Affero General Public License + commercial permissive exception)
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Ghostscript is a suite of software based on an interpreter for Adobe Systems' PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) page description languages. Its main purposes are the rasterization of documents in these languages, the display or printing of document pages, and conversion between PostScript and PDF files.
== Features == Ghostscript can be used as a raster image processor (RIP) for raster computer printers—for instance, as an input filter of line printer daemon—or as the RIP engine behind PostScript and PDF viewers. It can also be used as a file format converter, such as PostScript to PDF converter. The ps2pdf conversion program comes with the Ghostscript distribution.
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