Obtaining AFPL Ghostscript 8.53

Post-release news

After you get this version of Ghostscript, we suggest that you track news, updates, and fixes here or at the Ghostscript community website, ghostscript.com.

Mirror sites

The primary site for the Ghostscript source code is http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ghostscript/. The primary FTP site for the full Ghostscript release is ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/. Ghostscript is also available from many mirror sites which may be closer to you and provide faster access. Ghostscript is also available on CD-R.

Unix & VMS

You will need to obtain the following sources: and also the following fonts:
Start by reading the Readme.htm file in ghostscript-8.53.tar.bz2.

It is also worthwhile having the GV, GSview, ggv or kghostview previewer.

Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 or XP

You will need to obtain and run the self-extracting EXE

gs853w32.exe, AFPL Ghostscript 8.53 for Win32. 9548288 bytes
gs853w64.exe, AFPL Ghostscript 8.53 for 64-bit Windows (x86_64). 9524224 bytes
You can unzip these if you want to check the contents.

It is recommended that you also install GSview, a graphical interface to Ghostscript.

gsv48w32.exe, GSview 4.8 for Win32 1494016 bytes

OS/2

You will need to obtain the following ZIP files:

Unzip gsv48os2.zip and follow the instructions in the file Readme.htm.

DOS

MS-DOS is no longer supported by AFPL Ghostscript. See Aladdin Ghostscript 5.10 for a 32-bit DOS EXE. Alternatively, the Win32 package above includes gswin32c.exe, a Win32 command line version of Ghostscript.

GSview

If using OS/2 or MS-Windows it is strongly recommended that you also get GSview, which provides a graphical interface to Ghostscript.

To unpack ZIP files, you will need an unzip program such as Info-ZIP unzip.

Macintosh

AFPL Ghostscript 8.53 is not yet available precompiled for the Mac.

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Last update 2006-02-25