GPL Ghostscript

GPL Ghostscript

GPL Ghostscript is a complete set of page description language interpreters including PDF, PostScript, PCL5, PCLXL, and XPS along with the ability to convert to and from any of these languages. There is no other open source solution for page description languages that is this comprehensive.

Who is the software's intended audience?

Anyone who needs to view, print, archive, or convert PDF, PostScript, PCL, or XPS on any platform is a potential GPL Ghostscript user.

What are a couple of notable examples of how people are using this software?

* The Linux print architecture

* Ghostscript's PDF interpreter is in every Kyocera printer in the last eight years

* Ghostscript is the PDF engine in many document management solutions including Xerox, OpenText, and Xinet

* Ghostscript is the PDF engine in many PDF tools applications including PrimoPDF, NitroPDF, and activePDF

* Ghostscript is the PDF/PostScript engine in many host-base Raster Image Processors (RIPs) including Caldera, Aurelon, Ergosoft, and Devstudio

Where do you see your project going?

The need for independent implementations of page description languages is not going away. PDF becoming a requirement in pocket computers (smart phones and tablets), and one of these technologies, "MuPDF" is optimized for that kind of application.

Current workload ?

1,700 hours per month.