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Obtaining Aladdin Ghostscript 5.10

See also the topic Ghostscript Licensing.

Post-release news

After you get this version of Ghostscript, we suggest that you follow this link to find a list of problems, fixes, and workarounds for this release.

Mirror sites

The primary FTP site for Ghostscript is ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost. Ghostscript is also available from many mirror sites which may be closer to you and provide faster access. Ghostscript is also available on CD-R.

Unix & VMS

You will need to obtain the following sources: and also the following fonts:
Start by reading the README file in ghostscript-5.10.tar.gz.

It is also worthwhile having the GV previewer.

A precompiled version for RedHat Linux 5.1 is available from ghostscript-5.10-1.i386.rpm and ghostscript-fonts-5.10-2.noarch.rpm, The sources are available from ghostscript-5.10-1.src.rpm and ghostscript-fonts-5.10-2.src.rpm.

OS/2, MS-DOS & MS-Windows

You will need to obtain the following ZIP files:

Plus one or more of: If you don't already have a full set of Type 1 fonts, you will also need: If you plan to re-compile from the sources, you will need: The font metrics (AFM files) for the fonts in gs510fn1.zip and some extra fonts are available in: The documentation for Ghostscript is in the gs510ini.zip file. Look for README, new-user.txt, install.txt and use.txt.

If using OS/2 or MS-Windows it is recommended that you also get GSview, which provides a graphical interface to Ghostscript. GSview 2.5 contains an installation program which also installs Ghostscript 5.10. You need ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/rjl/old/gsview25.zip 2336k, gs510ini.zip, gs510fn1.zip and either gs510w32.zip or gs510os2.zip. See the README.TXT file in gsview25.zip for more details. The latest version available for the DEC Alpha is GSview 2.4.

To unpack ZIP files, you will need an unzip program such as Info-ZIP unzip.

Nelson Beebe has some notes on installing GSview and Ghostscript on Windows 95.

Macintosh

Aladdin Ghostscript 5.10 is available precompiled for the Mac here.

The following information applies to Aladdin Ghostscript 5.10.

You will need to obtain one of the following:

plus all of these: If you plan to re-compile from the sources, you will need: Start by reading the readme.txt file for installation instructions.

The MacGS Viewer Manual is part of the macgs-510-files.sit.bin archive and contains more detailed information. There is also a web version of the manual on-line. You can find out more about MacGS-510 on-line as well.

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