Ghostscript

an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF.

Releases and News

The leading edge of Ghostscript development is under the GNU Affero GPL license.

Ghostscript releases can be downloaded here.

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

If you want to contribute patches to Ghostscript, GhostPDL or MuPDF you will need to read, understand and sign the Artifex Contributor License Agreement. We also have a bug bounty program if you're looking for a place to start contributing.

Related projects

Other page description languages:

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

A user-friendly viewer:

• GSview

A JBIG2 image decoder: jbig2dec.com