Information on Ghostview/Ghostscript

Ghostscript is a freely available PostScript interpreter, with versions for a number of different platforms. Ghostview is an additional driver program, also freely available, that uses the Ghostscript engine to display multi-page PostScript documents on your screen.

The first place to look for information on Ghostscript and Ghostview is the Ghostscript Home Page. Presumably, this information will be kept current by its maintainers (not us!). There is also a semi-commercial (though unsupported) version, with better fonts, available by mail at a reasonable price from Aladdin Enterprises.

Here are a few, some older, downloading points known to us at the time of writing. You want to get both Ghostscript (often named "gs261..." or similar) and Ghostview (often named "gsview..." or similar) for full effectiveness:

  • Primary Download Point from the Ghostscript Home Page (UNIX, VMS, Windows, Macintosh)
  • Mirror site in Cambridge, U.K.
  • Mirror site in Boston, USA
  • Mirror site in Heidelberg, Germany
  • FTP to the Gnu public area at MIT (UNIX versions)

  • Akin Wingerter
    Last modified: Thu May 31 12:00:31 CEST 2001