Obtaining AFPL Ghostscript 8.50

Post-release news

After you get this version of Ghostscript, we suggest that you track news, updates, and fixes here or at the Ghostscript community website, ghostscript.com.

Mirror sites

The primary site for the Ghostscript source code is http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ghostscript/. The primary FTP site for the full Ghostscript release 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:

ghostscript-8.50.tar.bz2, Ghostscript sources, 8837036 bytes
jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz, JPEG library sources, 613261 bytes
libpng-1.2.8.tar.gz, LIBPNG library sources, 510670 bytes
zlib-1.2.1.tar.gz, ZLIB library sources, 345833 bytes

and also the following fonts:

ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz, Ghostscript standard fonts, 3752871 bytes

Start by reading the Readme.htm file in ghostscript-8.50.tar.bz2.

It is also worthwhile having the GV, GSview, ggv or kghostview previewer.

Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 or XP

You will need to obtain and run the self-extracting EXE

gs850w32.exe, AFPL Ghostscript 8.50 for Win32 10297856 bytes

You can unzip this if you want to check the contents.

It is recommended that you also install GSview, a graphical interface to Ghostscript.

gsv47w32.exe, GSview 4.7 for Win32 1518080 bytes

OS/2

You will need to obtain the following ZIP files:

gs850os2.zip, AFPL Ghostscript for OS/2, 10229128 bytes
gsv47os2.zip, GSview for OS/2, 1405500 bytes.

Unzip gsv47os2.zip and follow the instructions in the file Readme.htm.

DOS

MS-DOS is no longer supported by AFPL Ghostscript. See Aladdin Ghostscript 5.10 for a 32-bit DOS EXE. Alternatively, the Win32 package above includes gswin32c.exe, a Win32 command line version of Ghostscript.

GSview

If using OS/2 or MS-Windows it is strongly recommended that you also get GSview, which provides a graphical interface to Ghostscript.

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

Macintosh

AFPL Ghostscript 8.50 is available precompiled for the Mac at the mirror sites listed above.

This is simply an update of the Ghostscript engine; you'll still need to use it with a viewer application like MacGSView. Simply replace the various pieces with the updated versions from the macgs-850-shlib folder. For MacGSView 2.0beta4, the important pieces are the 'GhostscriptLib PPC' file in the Extensions Folder, and the 'lib' directory in Application Support:Ghostscript inside the system folder.

To compile MacOS shared component from source, you just need the macgs-850-src.sit archive available from the same locations, and Metrowerks Codewarrior v8 (or above). This archive contains all the third party libraries required to build Ghostscript, but not the source to the viewer application or the standard fontset (see above) required for text rendering.

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Last update 2005-03-27