source: pst/printing/gs.xml@ 019052a1

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY gs-download-http
  "http://downloads.ghostscript.com/public/ghostscript-&gs-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY gs-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY gs-md5sum        "eea27befc1e85bef6d4768202f6b03a5">
  <!ENTITY gs-size          "27 MB">
  <!ENTITY gs-buildsize
  "215 MB (includes installing libgs.so and both font tarballs)">
  <!ENTITY gs-time
  "3.3 SBU (includes building and installing libgs.so)">

  <!ENTITY gs-standard-fonts-download
  "&sourceforge-repo;/gs-fonts/ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY gs-standard-fonts-md5sum   "6865682b095f8c4500c54b285ff05ef6">
  <!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">
  <!ENTITY gs-other-fonts-size        "796 KB">
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<sect1 id="gs" xreflabel="ghostscript-&gs-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="gs.html"?>

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

  <title>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>

    &lfs73_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="recommended">
      <xref linkend="expat"/>,
      <xref linkend="freetype2"/>,
      <xref linkend="libjpeg"/>,
      <xref linkend="libpng"/>, and
      <xref linkend="libtiff"/> <!--, and
      <xref linkend="lcms2"/>-->
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="cairo"/>,
      <xref linkend="fontconfig"/>,
      <xref linkend="gtk2"/>,
      <xref linkend="cups"/>,
      <xref linkend="jasper"/>,
      <xref linkend="lcms"/>,
      <xref linkend="libidn"/>,
      <xref linkend="x-window-system"/> 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>

    <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 first 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>lcms2</application>, -->
      <application>libjpeg</application>, <application>libpng</application>,
      and <application>libtiff</application>:
    </para>

    <note><para>Little CMS-2.5 will not work with this version of 
      <application>GPL Ghostscript</application>.  Use the embedded version
      for now.
    </para></note>
    

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

    <note>
      <para>
        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 <application>Ghostscript</application> build system. You can work
        around that problem by simply running make again (eg,
        <command>make -j4 || make -j1</command>).
      </para>
    </note>

    <note>
      <para>
        If you have installed Cups and your printer is <emphasis>not</emphasis>
        a postscript printer you will need to add
        <option>--with-install-cups</option> to the configure options below.
        (This option makes Ghostscript compile and install the gstoraster filter
        and the gstoraster.convs configuration file that allow Cups to convert a
        PostScript file to raster.)
      </para>
    </note>

    <para>Compile <application>Ghostscript</application>:</para>

<screen><userinput>rm -rf jasper lcms zlib &amp;&amp;
./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-dynamic --with-system-libtiff LIBS=-lz &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <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>ln -sfv ../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>

    <para>
      <command>rm -rf jasper lcms zlib</command>: The
      <application>Ghostscript</application> build system defaults to using its
      own version of <ulink url="http://www.openjpeg.org/">OpenJpeg</ulink> for
      JPEG 2000 files <!-- I can't get it to compile using a system installed
      version of openjpeg. It seems the ghostscript version has been heavily
      modified... --> so jasper source can be removed. The default color
      management system is now <application>lcms2</application> so the
      <application>lcms</application> source is not needed.
      <application>Zlib</application> was installed as part of LFS.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>--with-system-libtiff</option>: Remove this option if you've not
      installed <xref linkend="libtiff"/>.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>LIBS=-lz</parameter>: Use the <envar>LIBS</envar> variable to
      tell the linker (ld) to link against the system installed
      <application>zlib</application>.
    </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 -v -s ghostscript /usr/include/ps</command>: Some packages
      expect to find the interface headers in an alternate location.
    </para>

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