source: pst/printing/gs.xml@ db1d3ee

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  <!-- <!ENTITY gs-download-http "&sourceforge-repo;/ghostscript/ghostscript-&gs-version;.tar.bz2"> -->
  <!-- FIXME use .bz2 or .xz when updating, if they are available -->
  <!ENTITY gs-download-http "http://ghostscript.com/releases/ghostscript-&gs-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!-- no response 2010-12-18
  <!ENTITY gs-download-ftp  "ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/GPL/gs900/ghostscript-&gs-version;.tar.gz"> -->
  <!ENTITY gs-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY gs-md5sum        "9f6899e821ab6d78ab2c856f10fa3023">
  <!ENTITY gs-size          "28.5 MB">
  <!ENTITY gs-buildsize     "297 MB (includes installing libgs.so and both font tarballs)">
  <!ENTITY gs-time          "2.5 SBU (includes building and installing libgs.so)">

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  <!ENTITY gs-standard-fonts-size     "3.7 MB">

  <!ENTITY gs-other-fonts-download    "&sourceforge-repo;/gs-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-other-6.0.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY gs-other-fonts-md5sum      "33457d3f37de7ef03d2eea05a9e6aa4f">
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<sect1 id="gs" xreflabel="GPL Ghostscript-&gs-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="gs.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>GPL Ghostscript-&gs-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="gs">
    <primary sortas="a-GPL-Ghostscript">GPL Ghostscript</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Ghostscript</title>

    <para><application>Ghostscript</application> is a versatile processor
    for PostScript data with the ability to render PostScript to different
    targets.</para>

    &lfs70_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&gs-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&gs-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &gs-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &gs-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &gs-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &gs-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>

    <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
      <title>Standard Fonts</title>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&gs-standard-fonts-download;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &gs-standard-fonts-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &gs-standard-fonts-size;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
      <title>Other Fonts</title>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&gs-other-fonts-download;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &gs-other-fonts-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &gs-other-fonts-size;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Ghostscript Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional"><xref linkend="expat"/>,
    <xref linkend="freetype2"/>,
    <xref linkend="jasper"/>
    <xref linkend="libjpeg"/>,
    <xref linkend="libpng"/>,
    <xref linkend="libtiff"/>, and
    <xref linkend="lcms"/></para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
    <xref linkend="cairo"/>,
    <xref linkend="fontconfig"/>,
    <xref linkend="gtk2"/>,
    <xref linkend="cups"/>,
    <xref linkend="libidn"/>,
    <xref linkend="x-window-system"/>, and
    <!-- the link for ijs source ultimately takes users back to the ghostscript site
    <ulink url="http://www.linuxprinting.org/ijs/">IJS</ulink>, and -->
    <ulink url="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libpaper">libpaper</ulink>.</para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/gs"/></para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Ghostscript</title>

    <para>Install <application>GPL Ghostscript</application> by running the
    following commands:</para>

      <note>
      <para>The <application>Ghostscript</application> build system is not
      user-friendly. In order to use system copies of various graphics
      libraries, you must do it using unconventional methods.</para>
      </note>

      <para><application>GPL Ghostscript</application> includes (old) copies of
      several libraries. Some of these seem to have been patched to fix known
      vulnerabilities, but others of these copies are less-well maintained.
      To ensure that any future fixes are applied throughout the whole system,
      it is recommended that you install the released versions of these
      libraries and then configure <application>GPL Ghostscript</application>
      to link to them.</para>

      <para>If you have installed these dependencies on your system, remove the
      copies of <application>expat</application>,
      <application>freetype</application>, <application>JasPer</application>,
      <application>lcms</application>, <application>libjpeg</application>,
      <application>libpng</application>, <application>libtiff</application>
      and <application>zlib</application>:
      </para>

<screen><userinput>rm -rf expat freetype jasper lcms jpeg libpng tiff zlib</userinput></screen>

    <para>Run the configure command:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-dynamic --with-system-libtiff</userinput></screen>

    <para>To ensure the build is able to use the system versions of
    <application>expat</application>, <application>freetype</application>, and
    <application>zlib</application> it is necessary to make some changes and an
    addition to the <literal>Makefile</literal> before building the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>sed -i '/^EXTRALIBS/s# -ldl# -lfreetype -lz#
  /=imdi/aSHARE_EXPAT=1' Makefile &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <warning>
      <para>If you have a multiprocessor computer and try to run make with
      multiple jobs (eg, -j4) then the build may fail due to race conditions in
      the <application>Ghostscript</application> build system.</para>
    </warning>

    <note>
      <para>The shared library depends on <xref linkend="gtk2"/>. It is
      only used in external programs like <xref linkend="imagemagick"/>.</para>
    </note>

    <para>To compile the shared library
    <filename class='libraryfile'>libgs.so</filename>, run the
    following additional command as an unprivileged user:</para>

<screen><userinput>make so</userinput></screen>

    <para>This package does not come with a test suite. However, you may test
    the operation of the newly built <command>gs</command> program by
    issuing the following command (issue from an X Windows terminal):</para>

    <screen><userinput>bin/gs -Ilib -dBATCH examples/tiger.eps</userinput></screen>

    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
    user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

    <para>If you want the shared library too:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make soinstall &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644 base/*.h /usr/include/ghostscript &amp;&amp;
ln -v -s ghostscript /usr/include/ps</userinput></screen>

    <para>Now install the documentation:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>cp -rf doc /usr/share/ghostscript/&gs-version; &amp;&amp;
ln -sv ../ghostscript/&gs-version;/doc /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-&gs-version;</userinput></screen>

    <para>To finish the installation, unpack all fonts you've downloaded to
    <filename class="directory">/usr/share/ghostscript</filename> and ensure
    the ownerships of the files are
    <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>:
    <systemitem class="groupname">root</systemitem>. Substitute
    <replaceable>&lt;font-tarball&gt;</replaceable> appropriately in
    the command below for the fonts you wish to install:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>tar -xvf ../<replaceable>&lt;font-tarball&gt;</replaceable> -C /usr/share/ghostscript --no-same-owner</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <!-- works fine on 32 bit systems for me - Andrew Benton
    <para><command>with-drivers=ALL,x11</command>: This parameter adds the
    <literal>x11</literal> output device to the default (<literal>ALL</literal>)
    selection so that the test to render the tiger will work on 32-bit systems
    (this does no harm on the <literal>x86_64</literal> architecture, although
    it is not required there).</para> -->

    <!-- The build fails for me with this option with ghostscript-9.04 and
    zlib-1.2.5 - Andrew Benton
    <para><command>disable-compile-inits</command>: This parameter is intended
    to avoid compiling initialization files into the executables.  It is used
    here to simplify building against the system version of
    <application>zlib</application>.</para> -->

    <para><option>--without-jasper</option>: If you know you do not wish to
    print any <literal>JPEG2000</literal> files, this switch (and removing the
    <filename class="directory">jasper</filename> folder in the source) will
    disable JPEG2000 support in <application>Ghostscript</application>.</para>

    <para><option>--without-jbig2dec</option>: The <literal>JBIG2</literal>
    decompression code (used for some faxes) can be disabled by using this
    switch and removing the <filename class="directory">jbig2dec/</filename>
    source.</para>

    <para><command>install -v -m644 base/*.h...</command>: Some packages
    (<application>ImageMagick</application> is one) need the
    <application>Ghostscript</application> interface headers in place to link
    to the shared library. These commands install the headers.</para>

    <para><command>ln -sv ../ghostscript-&gs-version;/doc ...</command>:
    This puts a symbolic link to the documentation where it is expected to be
    found.</para>

    <para><command>ln -v -s ghostscript /usr/include/ps</command>: Some packages
    expect to find the interface headers in an alternate location.</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>
    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>bdftops, dumphint, dvipdf, eps2eps, fixmswrd.pl, font2c, gs, gsbj,
        gsc (from soinstall), gsdj, gsdj500, gslj, gslp, gsnd, gsx
        (from soinstall), lprsetup.sh, pdf2dsc, pdf2ps, pdfopt,
        pf2afm, pfbtopfa, printafm, ps2ascii, ps2epsi, ps2pdf, ps2pdf12,
        ps2pdf13, ps2pdf14, ps2pdfwr, ps2ps, ps2ps2, pv.sh, unix-lpr.sh, and
        wftopfa</seg>
        <seg>libgs.so </seg>
        <seg>/usr/include/ghostscript, /usr/lib/ghostscript,
        /usr/share/ghostscript,
        and /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-&gs-version;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="gplgs-prog">
        <term><command>gs</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is an interpreter for Adobe Systems' PostScript(tm) and Portable
          Document Format (PDF).</para>
          <indexterm zone="gs gplgs-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-gs">gs</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libgs.so">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libgs.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>provides <application>Ghostscript</application> functionality
          to other programs, such as <application>GSView</application>,
          <application>ImageMagick</application>, and
          <application>libspectre</application>.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gs libgs.so">
            <primary sortas="c-libgs.so">libgs.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

   </variablelist>

   <para><application>GPL Ghostscript</application> provides many different
   scripts used to convert PostScript, PDF, and other formats. Please refer to
   the HTML documentation or the man pages for information about the
   capabilities provided.</para>

  </sect2>

</sect1>