Available documentation

This pages holds archival documentation for previous releases of ghostscript, as well as the current development version.

• Current CVS

The above pages include some links to the Ghostscript source directories src and toolbin. These links will only work if you are viewing the Ghostscript documentation from the source distribution and not this website.

Ghostscript is the name of a set of software that provides:

• An interpreter for the PostScript (TM) language, with the ability to convert PostScript language files to many raster formats, view them on displays, and print them on printers that don't have PostScript language capability built in;
• An interpreter for Portable Document Format (PDF) files, with the same abilities;
• The ability to convert PostScript language files to PDF (with some limitations) and vice versa; and
• A set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library) that implement the graphics capabilities that appear as primitive operations in the PostScript language.

Some ghostscript API programming examples are available for C, Delphi and Visual Basic.