Ghostscript

Welcome to Ghostscript, an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF.

Releases and News

The leading edge of Ghostscript development is under GPL license, as is the latest release, Ghostscript 9.05.

Ghostscript can be downloaded here, and from sourceforge.net.

Documentation

We keep online documentation for the development tree and many previous releases in the documentation archive.

We have also started collating a Frequently Asked Questions page. It is early days, but may prove useful:

Ghostscript/GhostPDL FAQ

Developers

• Source repository
• Bugzilla
• #ghostscript irc channel (via a browser) (logs)
• Mailing lists
• Bug bounty program

Related projects

Other page description languages:

• GhostPCL
• GhostPDF
• GhostXPS
• MuPDF - also available for iOS devices from iTunes(c)

A user-friendly viewer:

• GSview