%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ GPL Ghostscript Ghostscript is a versatile processor for PostScript data with the ability to render PostScript to different targets. It used to be part of the cups printing stack, but is no longer used for that. &lfs77_checked; &gcc5_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 If you wish, you can download additional fonts. Download (HTTP): 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 , , (required, if you are installing any suggested font), , , , (not used by default, nor if lcms2 is present or found), and User Notes: 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 first 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 freetype, lcms2, libjpeg, and libpng: sed -i 's/ZLIBDIR=src/ZLIBDIR=$includedir/' configure.ac configure && rm -rf freetype lcms2 jpeg libpng Compile Ghostscript: rm -rf zlib expat && ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-compile-inits \ --enable-dynamic --with-system-libtiff && make The shared library depends on . It is only used in external programs like and . To compile the shared library libgs.so, run the following additional command as an unprivileged user: make so This package does not come with a test suite. A set of example files may be used for testing, but it is only possible after installation of the package. Now, as the root user: make install If you want the shared library too: make soinstall && install -v -m644 base/*.h /usr/include/ghostscript && ln -v -s ghostscript /usr/include/ps Now make the documentation accessible from the normal place: ln -sfv ../ghostscript/&gs-version;/doc /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-&gs-version; If you have downloaded any fonts, unpack them to /usr/share/ghostscript and ensure the ownerships of the files are root: root. Substitute <font-tarball> appropriately in the command below for the fonts you wish to install: tar -xvf ../<font-tarball> -C /usr/share/ghostscript --no-same-owner && fc-cache -v /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/ You can now test the rendering of various postscript and pdf files from the /usr/share/ghostscript/&gs-version;/examples , for example (you need an X window system display): gs -q -dBATCH /usr/share/ghostscript/&gs-version;/examples/tiger.eps sed -i 's/ZLIBDIR=src/ZLIBDIR=$includedir/' ... : Fix to build with system zlib. rm -rf zlib expat : zlib and expat were installed as part of LFS. --disable-compile-inits: This option makes gs and libgs.so slightly smaller. --with-system-libtiff: Remove this option if you've not installed . 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. --disable-cups: this option will save a tiny amount of space by not linking gs and libgs.so to the libraries if you have installed those. Installed Programs Installed Library Installed Directories dvipdf, eps2eps, font2c, gs, gsbj, gsc (from soinstall), gsdj, gsdj500, gslj, gslp, gsnd, gsx (from soinstall), lprsetup.sh, pdf2dsc, pdf2ps, pf2afm, pfbtopfa, pphs, printafm, ps2ascii, ps2epsi, ps2pdf, ps2pdf12, ps2pdf13, ps2pdf14, ps2pdfwr, ps2ps, ps2ps2, unix-lpr.sh, and wftopfa libgs.so and /usr/lib/ghostscript/&gs-version;/X11.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.