%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ GPL Ghostscript Ghostscript is a versatile processor for PostScript data with the ability to render PostScript to different targets. &lfs71_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &gs-md5sum; Download size: &gs-size; Estimated disk space required: &gs-buildsize; Estimated build time: &gs-time; Additional Downloads Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &gs-standard-fonts-md5sum; Download size: &gs-standard-fonts-size; Download (HTTP): Download MD5 sum: &gs-other-fonts-md5sum; Download size: &gs-other-fonts-size; Ghostscript Dependencies Recommended , , , , , and . Optional , , , , , , , , and libpaper. User Notes: Install GPL Ghostscript by running the following commands: The Ghostscript build system is not user-friendly. In order to use system copies of various graphics libraries, you must do it using unconventional methods. GPL Ghostscript 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 GPL Ghostscript to link to them. If you have installed these dependencies on your system, remove the copies of expat, freetype, lcms2, libjpeg, libpng, and libtiff: rm -rf expat freetype jpeg lcms2 libpng tiff If you have a multicore computer and try to run make with multiple jobs (eg, make -j4) then the build may fail due to race conditions in the Ghostscript build system. Compile Ghostscript: rm -rf jasper lcms zlib && ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-dynamic --with-system-libtiff LIBS=-lz && make The shared library depends on . It is only used in external programs like . To compile the shared library libgs.so, run the following additional command as an unprivileged user: make so This package does not come with a test suite. However, you may test the operation of the newly built gs program by issuing the following command (issue from an X Windows terminal): bin/gs -Ilib -dBATCH examples/tiger.eps Now, as the root user: make install If you want the shared library too: make soinstall && install -v -m644 base/*.h /usr/include/ghostscript && ln -v -s ghostscript /usr/include/ps Now install the documentation: ln -sfv ../ghostscript/&gs-version;/doc /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-&gs-version; To finish the installation, unpack all fonts you've downloaded to /usr/share/ghostscript and ensure the ownerships of the files are root: root. Substitute <font-tarball> appropriately in the command below for the fonts you wish to install: tar -xvf ../<font-tarball> -C /usr/share/ghostscript --no-same-owner rm -rf jasper lcms zlib: The Ghostscript build system defaults to using its own version of OpenJpeg for JPEG 2000 files so we can all remove the jasper source. The default color management system is now lcms2 so the lcms source is not needed. Zlib was installed as part of LFS. --with-system-libtiff: Remove this option if you've not installed . LIBS=-lz: We use the LIBS variable to tell the linker (ld) to link against the system installed zlib. install -v -m644 base/*.h...: Some packages (ImageMagick is one) need the Ghostscript interface headers in place to link to the shared library. These commands install the headers. ln -v -s ghostscript /usr/include/ps: Some packages expect to find the interface headers in an alternate location. ln -sfv ../ghostscript-&gs-version;/doc ...: This puts a symbolic link to the documentation where it is expected to be found. Installed Programs Installed Library Installed Directories 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 libgs.so /usr/include/ghostscript, /usr/lib/ghostscript, /usr/share/ghostscript, and /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-&gs-version; Short Descriptions gs is an interpreter for Adobe Systems' PostScript(tm) and Portable Document Format (PDF). gs libgs.so provides Ghostscript functionality to other programs, such as GSView, ImageMagick, and libspectre. libgs.so GPL Ghostscript 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.