Ghostscript and PostScript information

Information at other sites

Many of the links on this page are broken, but the original links are still present in case you want to find out how the pages used to look using the Internet Archive

• Precompiled Ghostscript executables
  • Aladdin Ghostscript 5.50 for Solaris, Irix, and (soon) AIX dead link
  • Macintosh Ghostscript 3.33 now available, 1995-05-12
• Third-party drivers for Ghostscript
  • A driver for the Lexmark 5700 printer (black and white only)
  • A driver that writes SVG (XML-based structured graphics) dead link
• Ghostscript for other platforms
  • Atari Ghostscript WWW page
  • Amiga OS 3.0 dead link
  • MacGhostView from CMacTex
  • Unofficial Mac Ghostscript 5.10. Part of CMacTeX.
• Utilities that work with Ghostscript
  • pstotext dead link - extracting plain text from PostScript. An updated version of pstotext is on the ghostscript site.
  • tprint, a tcl/tk utility to print PostScript files with Ghostscript. dead link
  • lpd for Windows, a utility that enables network printing to GDI printers. dead link
• Other software
  • PrintFile - Easy file printing in Windows by Peter Lerup.
  • txt2pdf, PDFindex and PDFprint by SANFACE Software.
  • Mayura Draw for Windows
  • pstoedit - converts Postscript to other vector formats
  • PSUtils - PostScript Utilities by Angus Duggan. Allows n-up printing etc.
  • GNU plotutils, a powerful C/C++ function library for exporting 2-D vector graphics in many file formats, both vector and raster.
  • PSPLOT, a Fortran callable PostScript plotting library.
  • a2ps, ASCII to PostScript converter.
  • GNU Enscript, ASCII to PostScript converter.
  • ePDF is an OS/2 PM tool for PostScript to PDF conversion, which uses GhostScript as back-end.
• Documents and documentation
  • Ghostscript operators reference dead link
  • comp.lang.postscript FAQ v2.4, v2.3 dead link
  • Adobe WWW home page
  • Adobe Technical Notes for Developers
  • PostScript and Ghostscript Information and Resource Directory by InkGuides.
  based on the older Internet Resources for PostScript and Ghostscript by Jim Land originally at geocities.
  • A First Guide to PostScript
  • Richard's PS Junk Page by Richard Bethell. dead link
  • Internet PostScript Resources
  • PostScript Sins, an article by Kevin Thompson in Byte, August 1995. dead link
  • The Linux Printing HOWTO dead link
  • How to configure a printer supported by Ghostscript as a postscript printer under Solaris dead link