Ghostscript and PostScript information

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• Precompiled Ghostscript executables
  • Aladdin Ghostscript 5.50 for Solaris, Irix, and (soon) AIX
  • 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)
• Ghostscript for other platforms
  • Atari Ghostscript WWW page
  • Amiga OS 3.0
  • MacGhostView from CMacTex
  • Unofficial Mac Ghostscript 5.10. Part of CMacTeX.
• Utilities that work with Ghostscript
  • ps_view previewer. Suitable for DOS.
  • pstotext - 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.
  • lpd for Windows, a utility that enables network printing to GDI printers.
• 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
  • comp.lang.postscript FAQ v2.4, v2.3
  • Adobe WWW home page
  • Adobe Technical Notes for Developers
  • Internet Resources for PostScript and Ghostscript by Jim Land.
  • A First Guide to PostScript
  • Richard's PS Junk Page by Richard Bethell.
  • Internet PostScript Resources
  • PostScript Sins, an article by Kevin Thompson in Byte, August 1995.
  • The Linux Printing HOWTO
  • How to configure a printer supported by Ghostscript as a postscript printer under Solaris