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Ghostscript 5 What is Ghostscript? Installing Ghostscript Building Ghostscript from C Source Ghostscript Primer Ghostscript Reference More Ghostscript Applications Ghostscript User Manual © Thomas Merz 1996-97 (tm@muc.de) This manual is adapted from appendix B of the following book: »PostScript and Acrobat/PDF. Applications, Troubleshooting, and Cross-Platform Publishing« by Thomas Merz, Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York 1997, ISBN 3-540-60854-0, 420 pages plus CD-ROM. Book and manual are also available in German (Thomas Merz Verlag München, ISBN 3-9804943-0-6). The Ghostscript manual may be freely copied and redistributed in printed or digital form if no payment is involved. Commercial reproduction is prohibited. However, the author agrees to any redistribution along with the Ghostscript software, provided the distributor complies with the applicable Ghostscript license terms. The Ghostscript manual is available from http://www.muc.de/~tm. 1 What is Ghostscript? L. Peter Deutsch, founder of Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, California, wrote the PostScript Level 2 and PDF interpreter Ghostscript in the C programming language. The program runs on most operating systems, including MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows NT, OS/2, Macintosh, Unix, and VAX/ VMS, and has been available free of charge ever since its intro- duction in 1988. With the help of many users and programmers on the Internet Ghostscript has become a high-quality and ver- satile PostScript interpreter. Peter Deutsch also distributes a commercial version with customer-specific enhancements and …