source: pst/printing/gs.xml@ 6392ac9

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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        "7179bb1ed4f6f453147e6f7e1f210ce8">
  <!ENTITY gs-size          "30 MB">
  <!ENTITY gs-buildsize
  "127 MB (includes installing libgs.so, add 5 MB if the fonts are installed)">
  <!ENTITY gs-time
  "2.3 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">
]>

<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. It used to be part of the cups printing stack, but is no longer
    used for that.</para>

    &lfs75_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>

      <para>If you wish, you can download additional fonts.</para>

    <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"/>,
      <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="lcms"/> (not used by default, nor if lcms2 is present or found),
      <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>, and <application>libpng</application>:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>rm -rf expat freetype lcms2 jpeg libpng</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>

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

<screen><userinput>rm -rf zlib &amp;&amp;
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-compile-inits \
 --enable-dynamic --with-system-libtiff &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 Window System terminal):
    </para>

<screen><userinput>bin/gs -Ilib -IResource/Init -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 make the documentation accessible from the normal place:</para>

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

    <para>
      If you have downloaded any fonts, unpack them 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 zlib</command>:
      <application>zlib</application> was installed as part of LFS.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>--disable-compile-inits</parameter>: This option makes
      <command>gs</command> and <filename>libgs.so</filename> slightly smaller.
    </para>

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

    <para>
      <option>--disable-cups</option>: this option will save a tiny amount of
      space by not linking <command>gs</command> and <filename>libgs.so</filename>
      to the <xref linkend="cups"/> libraries if you have installed those.
    </para>
  </sect2>

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

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          bdftops, dvipdf, eps2eps, fixmswrd.pl, font2c, gs, gsbj,
          gsc (from soinstall), gsdj, gsdj500, gslj, gslp, gsnd, gsx
          (from soinstall), lprsetup.sh, pdf2dsc, pdf2ps,
          pf2afm, pfbtopfa, printafm, ps2ascii, ps2epsi, ps2pdf, ps2pdf12,
          ps2pdf13, ps2pdf14, ps2pdfwr, ps2ps, ps2ps2, pv.sh, unix-lpr.sh, and
          wftopfa
          <!-- I don't see bdftops,fixmswrd.pl or pv.sh on my builds [ I don't
          have any bdf tools from xorg ] but they are still referenced in
          base/unixinst.mak -->
        </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>