Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview

Welcome to the Home Page for Ghostscript, an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF, and related software and documentation.

Software available at this site

• AFPL Ghostscript (current stablerelease)
  • AFPL Ghostscript 8.54
• GPL Ghostscript
  • GPL Ghostscript 8.54 released 2006-06-01
  • GPL Ghostscript 8.51 released 2006-05-27
  • GPL Ghostscript 8.50 released 2005-12-31
  • GPL Ghostscript 8.15 released 2004-09-23
  • GNU Ghostscript 7.07 released 2003-05-17
• AFPL Ghostscript developer and beta filesets
• Ghostview and GV previewers for Unix & VMS
• MacGSView previewer for MacOS
• GSview previewer for Windows, OS/2 & Linux.
  • GSview 4.8 released 2006-02-25.
  • GSview can be used as a viewer for
    Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer
  • epstool for adding and removing DOS EPS previews
• RedMon - Redirect a Windows printer port to Ghostscript.
  • RedMon 1.7 released 2001-10-28
• ansi2knr - Convert ANSI C programs to traditional ("Kernighan & Richie") C.

Other sites

• FTP mirror sites. Please download from one near you.
• Ghostscript news and community site
• Obtaining GSview and Ghostscript on CD-ROM
• Links to other sites

Documentation

• Frequently Asked Questions
• Introduction to Ghostscript
• Ghostscript documentation
• Gripes
• Printer compatibility
• Newsgroups for Ghostscript
• Books about PostScript