Macintosh Port of Ghostscript

Glyphic Technology, working with Aladdin Enterprises, has created a port of Ghostscript to the Macintosh.

This port is based on the 3.33 release.

What is Ghostscript

Briefly, Ghostscript is the name of a set of software that provides an interpreter for the PostScript (TM) language (level 2), and a set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library) that implement the graphics capabilities that appear as primitive operations in the PostScript language.

It has been ported to a wide variety of platforms and is distributed in a number of forms. For more information see:

Ghostscript

The Macintosh Port

This is a Macintosh port of Ghostscript, based on version 3.33. The program offers the ability to preview PostScript files in windows, and save windows as PICT files, all with a Macintosh style interface. It also offers the traditional Ghostscript command line interface. The application can be built with any of the large number of Ghostscript printer and file format devices for rendering.

It is distributed under the Aladdin Ghostscript Free Public License. Both source and compiled versions are available. The compiled versions are for either PowerPC or 68020 or better (no FPU needed) and include some additional devices (tiff, pbm/pgm/ppm, pcx, stcolor and cdj550)

Getting it
Mac GS Viewer can be gotten via FTP from ftp.cs.wisc.edu in the directory /pub/ghost/aladdin/mac.
The rest of Ghostscript can be found at the same site in the directory /pub/ghost.

Discussion
Mac GS Viewer is part of the Ghostscript system which is discussed on the Internet news group: comp.lang.postscript. Please direct all discussion of the port there.

Other Reading
Viewing PostScript on a Macintosh by Charles A. Poynton.
The Mac GS Viewer Manual on-line.
A note about Rendering.
The Ghostscript Web.

Contacts
Aladdin Enterprises can be reached at: ghost@aladdin.com.
Glyphic Technology can be reached at: mac-gs@glyphic.com.
Note: Aladdin Systems - makers of StuffIt compression products and other utilities for Mac and PC - can be reached at: http://www.aladdinsys.com.

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