Making PDF with Ghostscript

(under construction)

by R.M. Schneider
Last Update: 15 Nov 2009

As defined by the authors (see http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/AFPL/index.htm) Ghostscript is the name of a set of software that provides:

• An interpreter for the PostScript (TM) language, with the ability to convert PostScript language files to many raster formats, view them on displays, and print them on printers that don't have PostScript language capability built in;
• An interpreter for Portable Document Format (PDF) files, with the same abilities;
• The ability to convert PostScript language files to PDF (with some limitations) and vice versa; and
• A set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library) that implement the graphics capabilities that appear as primitive operations in the PostScript language.

With Ghostscripts ability to covert PostScript files into PDF, this gives people a "free" resource to produce their own PDF files that then can distributed for readers to access via the Adobe Acrobat Reader.
For more information, see http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/AFPL/index.htm.

Manual Creation of PDF's in Windows

Features available via Linux Server

Prerequisites

You should have already installed and working the following components, all of which are normally provided by all Linux distributions:

• Samba printer service.   For more information, see www.samba.org.
  
• Mail server, e.g. Sendmail, qMail, or other.
  

Required Software

• Mutt mailer program
• Ghostscript
  

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