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[6732c094] | 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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[73ddd1a0] | 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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[00b6675] | 6 |
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[100786d] | 7 | <!-- <!ENTITY gs-download-http "&sourceforge-repo;/ghostscript/ghostscript-&gs-version;.tar.bz2"> -->
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| 8 | <!ENTITY gs-download-http "http://ghostscript.com/releases/ghostscript-&gs-version;.tar.gz">
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| 9 | <!ENTITY gs-download-ftp "ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/GPL/gs871/ghostscript-&gs-version;.tar.gz">
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| 10 | <!ENTITY gs-md5sum "51a522a5b4818bd3dc7c1c0e9dd22bad">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY gs-size "25.2 MB">
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| 12 | <!ENTITY gs-buildsize "255 MB (includes installing libgs.so and both font tarballs)">
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| 13 | <!ENTITY gs-time "3.3 SBU (includes building and installing libgs.so)">
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| 14 |
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| 15 | <!-- <!ENTITY gs-standard-fonts-download "ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/delegates/ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz"> -->
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| 16 | <!ENTITY gs-standard-fonts-download "&sourceforge-repo;/gs-fonts/ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz">
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[00b6675] | 17 | <!ENTITY gs-standard-fonts-md5sum "6865682b095f8c4500c54b285ff05ef6">
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[100786d] | 18 | <!ENTITY gs-standard-fonts-size "3.7 MB">
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[00b6675] | 19 |
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[100786d] | 20 | <!ENTITY gs-other-fonts-download "&sourceforge-repo;/gs-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-other-6.0.tar.gz">
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| 21 | <!ENTITY gs-other-fonts-md5sum "33457d3f37de7ef03d2eea05a9e6aa4f">
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| 22 | <!ENTITY gs-other-fonts-size "796 KB">
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[73ddd1a0] | 23 | ]>
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| 24 |
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[aa8ef3bc] | 25 | <sect1 id="gs" xreflabel="GPL Ghostscript-&gs-version;">
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[ed30f09] | 26 | <?dbhtml filename="gs.html"?>
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| 27 |
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| 28 | <sect1info>
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| 29 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 30 | <date>$Date$</date>
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| 31 | </sect1info>
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| 32 |
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[aa8ef3bc] | 33 | <title>GPL Ghostscript-&gs-version;</title>
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[ed30f09] | 34 |
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| 35 | <indexterm zone="gs">
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[aa8ef3bc] | 36 | <primary sortas="a-GPL-Ghostscript">GPL Ghostscript</primary>
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[ed30f09] | 37 | </indexterm>
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| 38 |
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| 39 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 40 | <title>Introduction to Ghostscript</title>
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| 41 |
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| 42 | <para><application>Ghostscript</application> is a versatile processor
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| 43 | for PostScript data with the ability to render PostScript to different
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| 44 | targets.</para>
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| 45 |
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[aa8ef3bc] | 46 | &lfs65_checked;
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| 47 |
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[ed30f09] | 48 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 49 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 50 | <listitem>
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| 51 | <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&gs-download-http;"/></para>
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| 52 | </listitem>
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| 53 | <listitem>
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| 54 | <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&gs-download-ftp;"/></para>
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| 55 | </listitem>
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| 56 | <listitem>
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| 57 | <para>Download MD5 sum: &gs-md5sum;</para>
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| 58 | </listitem>
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| 59 | <listitem>
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| 60 | <para>Download size: &gs-size;</para>
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| 61 | </listitem>
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| 62 | <listitem>
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| 63 | <para>Estimated disk space required: &gs-buildsize;</para>
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| 64 | </listitem>
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| 65 | <listitem>
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| 66 | <para>Estimated build time: &gs-time;</para>
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| 67 | </listitem>
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| 68 | </itemizedlist>
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| 69 |
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| 70 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
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| 71 |
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| 72 | <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
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| 73 | <title>Standard Fonts</title>
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| 74 | <listitem>
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| 75 | <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&gs-standard-fonts-download;"/></para>
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| 76 | </listitem>
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| 77 | <listitem>
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| 78 | <para>Download MD5 sum: &gs-standard-fonts-md5sum;</para>
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| 79 | </listitem>
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| 80 | <listitem>
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| 81 | <para>Download size: &gs-standard-fonts-size;</para>
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| 82 | </listitem>
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| 83 | </itemizedlist>
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| 84 |
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| 85 | <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
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| 86 | <title>Other Fonts</title>
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| 87 | <listitem>
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| 88 | <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&gs-other-fonts-download;"/></para>
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| 89 | </listitem>
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| 90 | <listitem>
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| 91 | <para>Download MD5 sum: &gs-other-fonts-md5sum;</para>
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| 92 | </listitem>
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| 93 | <listitem>
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| 94 | <para>Download size: &gs-other-fonts-size;</para>
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| 95 | </listitem>
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| 96 | </itemizedlist>
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| 97 |
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[aa8ef3bc] | 98 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 99 | <title>Patches</title>
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| 100 | <listitem>
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| 101 | <para>Optional patch: <ulink
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| 102 | url="&patch-root;/ghostscript-&gs-version;-system_jasper-1.patch"/>
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| 103 | </para>
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| 104 | </listitem>
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| 105 | </itemizedlist>
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| 106 |
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[b29ed97c] | 107 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Ghostscript Dependencies</bridgehead>
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[ed30f09] | 108 |
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| 109 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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[d352a28] | 110 | <para role="optional"><xref linkend="libjpeg"/>,
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[ed30f09] | 111 | <xref linkend="libpng"/>,
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[100786d] | 112 | <xref linkend="libtiff"/>,
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[aa8ef3bc] | 113 | <xref linkend="jasper"/>,
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[100786d] | 114 | <xref linkend="cairo"/>,
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| 115 | <xref linkend="fontconfig"/>,
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| 116 | <xref linkend="gtk2"/>,
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| 117 | <xref linkend="cups"/>,
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| 118 | <xref linkend="x-window-system"/>,
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| 119 | <ulink url="http://www.linuxprinting.org/ijs/">IJS</ulink>, and
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| 120 | <ulink url="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libpaper">libpaper</ulink></para>
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[ed30f09] | 121 |
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[977061b0] | 122 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
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| 123 | <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/gs"/></para>
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| 124 |
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[ed30f09] | 125 | </sect2>
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| 126 |
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| 127 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 128 | <title>Installation of Ghostscript</title>
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| 129 |
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[100786d] | 130 | <note>
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| 131 | <para>The <application>Ghostscript</application> build system is not
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| 132 | user-friendly. In order to use system copies of various graphics
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| 133 | libraries, you must do it using unconventional methods.</para>
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| 134 |
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| 135 | <para>First, if you wish to use the system-installed version of
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| 136 | <application>JasPer</application>, remove the local copy from the
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| 137 | source tree and apply a patch:</para>
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[aa8ef3bc] | 138 |
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| 139 | <screen><userinput>rm -rf jasper &&
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[1b5a1d1] | 140 | patch -Np1 -i ../ghostscript-&gs-version;-system_jasper-1.patch</userinput></screen>
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[aa8ef3bc] | 141 |
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[100786d] | 142 | <para>Next, if you wish to use the system-installed copies of
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| 143 | <application>libjpeg</application> and <application>libpng</application>,
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| 144 | remove the local copies from the source tree:</para>
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| 145 |
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| 146 | <screen><userinput>rm -rf jpeg &&
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| 147 | rm -rf libpng</userinput></screen>
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| 148 |
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| 149 | <para>If you wish to use the system-installed copy of
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| 150 | <application>libtiff</application>, add the parameter
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| 151 | <option>--with-system-libtiff</option> to the <command>./configure</command>
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| 152 | command shown below. Also remove the
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| 153 | <filename class='directory'>tiff</filename> directory from the source tree
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| 154 | to prevent the <application>Ghostscript</application> build from using any
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| 155 | of its local copy.</para>
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| 156 |
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| 157 | <para>Unfortunately, <application>Ghostscript</application> will use local
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| 158 | copies of <application>Expat</application> and
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| 159 | <application>Zlib</application> from the source tree. There doesn't
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| 160 | appear to be an easy way to use system-installed copies of these libraries
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[a41f643] | 161 | without doing some hacking of the sources.</para>
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[100786d] | 162 | </note>
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| 163 |
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[aa8ef3bc] | 164 | <para>Install <application>GPL Ghostscript</application> by running the
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[ed30f09] | 165 | following commands:</para>
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| 166 |
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[100786d] | 167 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-dynamic &&
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[038ea6ba] | 168 | make</userinput></screen>
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| 169 |
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[1b5a1d1] | 170 | <para>This package does not come with a test suite. However, you may test
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| 171 | the operation of the newly built <command>gs</command> program by
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| 172 | issuing the following command (issue from an X Windows terminal):</para>
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| 173 |
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| 174 | <screen><userinput>bin/gs -Ilib -dBATCH examples/tiger.eps</userinput></screen>
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[038ea6ba] | 175 |
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| 176 | <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
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| 177 |
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[100786d] | 178 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make install docdir=/usr/share/doc/ghostscript-&gs-version; &&
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| 179 |
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| 180 | for INSTFILE in `ls doc`
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| 181 | do
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| 182 | if [ ! -f /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-&gs-version;/$INSTFILE ]; then
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| 183 | install -v -m644 doc/$INSTFILE \
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| 184 | /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-&gs-version;
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| 185 | fi
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| 186 | done &&
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| 187 |
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| 188 | install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-&gs-version;/figures &&
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| 189 | install -v -m644 doc/figures/* \
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| 190 | /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-&gs-version;/figures</userinput></screen>
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[73ddd1a0] | 191 |
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[ed30f09] | 192 | <para>To install the shared library
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| 193 | <filename class='libraryfile'>libgs.so</filename>, run the
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[e615d9b] | 194 | following additional command as an unprivileged user:</para>
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[038ea6ba] | 195 |
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| 196 | <screen><userinput>make so</userinput></screen>
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[73ddd1a0] | 197 |
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[100786d] | 198 | <para>And again as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
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[e615d9b] | 199 | user:</para>
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[038ea6ba] | 200 |
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[100786d] | 201 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make soinstall docdir=/usr/share/doc/ghostscript-&gs-version; &&
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[aa8ef3bc] | 202 | install -v -m644 base/*.h /usr/include/ghostscript &&
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| 203 | ln -v -s ghostscript /usr/include/ps</userinput></screen>
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[73ddd1a0] | 204 |
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[ed30f09] | 205 | <note>
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[aa8ef3bc] | 206 | <para>The shared library depends on <xref linkend="gtk2"/>. It is
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[2ddf71a5] | 207 | only used in external programs like <xref linkend="gsview"/> and
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| 208 | <xref linkend="imagemagick"/>.</para>
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[ed30f09] | 209 | </note>
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[73ddd1a0] | 210 |
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[ed30f09] | 211 | <para>To finish the installation, unpack all fonts you've downloaded to
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[038ea6ba] | 212 | <filename class="directory">/usr/share/ghostscript</filename> and ensure
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[100786d] | 213 | the ownerships of the files are
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| 214 | <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>:<systemitem
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| 215 | class="groupname">root</systemitem>. Substitute
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[977061b0] | 216 | <replaceable><font-tarball></replaceable> appropriately in
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[038ea6ba] | 217 | the command below for the fonts you wish to install:</para>
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| 218 |
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[100786d] | 219 | <screen role="root"><userinput>tar -xvf ../<replaceable><font-tarball></replaceable> \
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| 220 | -C /usr/share/ghostscript --no-same-user</userinput></screen>
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[73ddd1a0] | 221 |
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[ed30f09] | 222 | </sect2>
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[73ddd1a0] | 223 |
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[2ddf71a5] | 224 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 225 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 226 |
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| 227 | <para><command>install ...</command>: Some packages
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| 228 | (<application>ImageMagick</application> is one) need the
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| 229 | <application>Ghostscript</application> interface headers in place to link
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| 230 | to the shared library. These commands install the headers.</para>
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| 231 |
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[100786d] | 232 | <!-- <para><command>ln -sv ... /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-&gs-version;</command>: This puts
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| 233 | the documentation where it is expected to be found.</para> -->
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[d891148c] | 234 |
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[aa8ef3bc] | 235 | <para><command>ln -v -s ghostscript /usr/include/ps</command>: Some
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[2ddf71a5] | 236 | packages expect to find the interface headers in an alternate
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| 237 | location.</para>
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| 238 |
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| 239 | </sect2>
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| 240 |
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[ed30f09] | 241 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 242 | <title>Contents</title>
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[038ea6ba] | 243 | <segmentedlist>
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| 244 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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| 245 | <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
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| 246 | <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
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| 247 |
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| 248 | <seglistitem>
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[aa8ef3bc] | 249 | <seg>bdftops, dumphint, dvipdf, eps2eps, fixmswrd.pl, font2c, gs, gsbj,
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[a41f643] | 250 | gsdj, gsdj500, gslj, gslp, gsnd, lprsetup.sh, pdf2dsc, pdf2ps, pdfopt,
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| 251 | pf2afm, pfbtopfa, printafm, ps2ascii, ps2epsi, ps2pdf, ps2pdf12,
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[aa8ef3bc] | 252 | ps2pdf13, ps2pdf14, ps2pdfwr, ps2ps, ps2ps2, pv.sh, unix-lpr.sh, and
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[038ea6ba] | 253 | wftopfa</seg>
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| 254 | <seg>libgs.so </seg>
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[100786d] | 255 | <seg>/usr/include/ghostscript, /usr/lib/ghostscript, /usr/share/ghostscript,
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| 256 | and /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-&gs-version;</seg>
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[038ea6ba] | 257 | </seglistitem>
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| 258 | </segmentedlist>
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| 259 |
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| 260 | <variablelist>
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| 261 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 262 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 263 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 264 |
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[d891148c] | 265 | <varlistentry id="gplgs-prog">
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[038ea6ba] | 266 | <term><command>gs</command></term>
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| 267 | <listitem>
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[d891148c] | 268 | <para>is an interpreter for Adobe Systems' PostScript(tm) and Portable Document Format
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| 269 | (PDF).</para>
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| 270 | <indexterm zone="gs gplgs-prog">
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[038ea6ba] | 271 | <primary sortas="b-gs">gs</primary>
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| 272 | </indexterm>
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| 273 | </listitem>
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| 274 | </varlistentry>
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| 275 |
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[d891148c] | 276 | <varlistentry id="libgs.so">
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| 277 | <term><filename class="libraryfile">libgs.so</filename></term>
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| 278 | <listitem>
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| 279 | <para>provides <application>Ghostscript</application> functionality
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| 280 | to other programs, such as <application>GSView</application>,
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| 281 | <application>ImageMagick</application>, and
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| 282 | <application>libspectre</application>.</para>
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| 283 | <indexterm zone="gs libgs.so">
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| 284 | <primary sortas="c-libgs.so">libgs.so</primary>
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| 285 | </indexterm>
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| 286 | </listitem>
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| 287 | </varlistentry>
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| 288 |
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[038ea6ba] | 289 | </variablelist>
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| 290 |
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[d891148c] | 291 | <para><application>GPL Ghostscript</application> provides many different
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[a41f643] | 292 | scripts used to convert PostScript, PDF, and other formats. Please refer to
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| 293 | the HTML documentation or the man pages for information about the
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[d891148c] | 294 | capabilities provided.</para>
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[73ddd1a0] | 295 |
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[ed30f09] | 296 | </sect2>
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[cabb2de] | 297 |
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| 298 | </sect1>
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