Help:Ghostscript

Ghostscript is a free interpreter of the Adobe PostScript language. gs and the tools that come with it can be used to manipulate, build, preview, and translate postscript files. This page documents options installed on the MMAE unix system. Consult teh main documentaiotn for information on the various utilities.

Vendor homepage

http://freshmeat.net/ghostscript

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/

Software availability

available on all mmae unix systems; sometimes installed on Windows sytems with other packages (such as matlab)

Documentation

• see man pages for individual commands
• Adobe PostScript Language Reference Manual documents the PostScript language
• Additional documentaion is in the directory /opt/gs6/share/ghostscript/6.0/doc/
• Some test files and example postscript are in /opt/gs6/share/ghostscript/6.0/examples
• ssd has written postscript for a full circle graduated protractor and a graduated ruler.

Other related software

gv, ghostview, Postscript