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Ghostscript

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Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript® language and PDF files.

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  • Windows
  • Linux
  • PortableApps.com
  • Mac  to be installed with Homebrew, MacPorts or compiling from source code
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  1.  Privacy focused

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  1.  Works Offline
  2.  No Tracking
  3.  No registration required
  4.  Ad-free
  5.  Portable

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Ghostscript was added to AlternativeTo by Danilo_Venom on Oct 21, 2010 and this page was last updated Mar 15, 2024.
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What is Ghostscript?

Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF.

Ghostscript is a package of software that provides:

  • An interpreter for the PostScript language, with the ability to convert PostScript language files to many raster formats, view them on displays, and print them on printers that don't have PostScript language capability built in;
  • An interpreter for Portable Document Format (PDF) files, with the same abilities;
  • The ability to convert PostScript language files to PDF (with some limitations) and vice versa; and
  • A set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library) that implement the graphics and filtering (data compression / decompression / conversion) capabilities that appear as primitive operations in the PostScript language and in PDF.

Ghostscript is written entirely in C, with special care taken to make it run properly on a wide variety of systems, including MS Windows, Apple MacOS, the wide variety of Unix and Unix-like platforms and VMS systems.

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