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  12. <h1>How to install Ghostscript</h1>
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  15. <h2>Table of contents</h2>
  16. <blockquote><ul>
  17. <li><a href="#Overview">Overview of how to install Ghostscript</a>
  18. <li><a href="#Install_Unix">Installing Ghostscript on Unix</a>
  19. <ul>
  20. <li><a href="#Shared_object">Ghostscript as a shared object</a>
  21. <li><a href="#Install_Linux">Additional notes on Linux</a>
  22. </ul>
  23. <li><a href="#Install_Windows">Installing Ghostscript on MS Windows</a>
  24. <li><a href="#Install_VMS">Installing Ghostscript on OpenVMS</a>
  25. <li><a href="#Install_DOS">Installing Ghostscript on DOS</a>
  26. <li><a href="#Install_OS2">Installing Ghostscript on OS/2 2.x</a>
  27. </ul></blockquote>
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  30. <p>For other information, see the <a href="Readme.htm">Ghostscript
  31. overview</a> and "<a href="Make.htm">How to build Ghostscript from source
  32. code</a>".
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  37. <h2><a name="Overview"></a>Overview of how to install Ghostscript</h2>
  38. <p>
  39. You must have three things to run Ghostscript:
  40. <ol>
  41. <li>The Ghostscript executable file; on some operating
  42. systems, more than one file is required. These are entirely
  43. platform-specific. See below for details.
  44. <li>Initialization files that Ghostscript reads in when it
  45. starts up; these are the same on all platforms.
  46. <ul>
  47. <li><b><tt>gs_</tt></b>*<b><tt>.ps</tt></b> unless Ghostscript was compiled
  48. using the "compiled initialization files" option. See the documentation of
  49. <a href="Psfiles.htm">PostScript files distributed with Ghostscript</a>.
  50. <li><b><tt>pdf_</tt></b>*<b><tt>.ps</tt></b> if Ghostscript was compiled
  51. with the ability to interpret Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files,
  52. that is, <b><tt>pdf.dev</tt></b> was included in
  53. <b><tt>FEATURE_DEVS</tt></b> when Ghostscript was built.
  54. <li><b><tt>Fontmap</tt></b> and <b><tt>Fontmap.GS</tt></b> (or the
  55. appropriate <b><tt>Fontmap.</tt></b><em>xxx</em> for your platform), unless
  56. you plan always to invoke Ghostscript with the <a
  57. href="Use.htm#FONTMAP_switch"><b><tt>-dNOFONTMAP</tt></b> switch</a>.
  58. </ul>
  59. <li>Fonts, for rendering text. These are platform-independent,
  60. but if you already have fonts of the right kind on your platform,
  61. you may be able to use those. See below for details. Also see the
  62. <a href="Fonts.htm">documentation on fonts</a>.
  63. </ol>
  64. <p>
  65. The <a href="Use.htm">usage documentation</a> describes the search
  66. algorithms used to find initialization files and font files. The
  67. per-platform descriptions that follow tell you where to install these
  68. files.
  69. <hr>
  70. <h2><a name="Install_Unix"></a>Installing Ghostscript on Unix</h2>
  71. <p>
  72. Ghostscript uses the common configure, build and install method common
  73. to many modern software packages. In general the following with suffice
  74. to build ghostscript:
  75. <blockquote><tt><b>
  76. ./configure<br>
  77. make
  78. </b></tt></blockquote>
  79. and then it may be installed in the default location with:
  80. <blockquote><b>
  81. <tt>make install</tt>
  82. </b></blockquote>
  83. This last command may need to be performed with super user privileges.
  84. <p>
  85. You can set the installation directory by adding <tt>--prefix=<em>path</em></tt>
  86. to the configure invocation in the first step. The default prefix is <tt>/usr/local</tt>,
  87. which is to say the <tt>gs</tt> executable is installed as <tt>/usr/local/bin/gs</tt>.
  88. </p>A list of similar configuration options is available via <tt>./configure --help</tt>
  89. <p>
  90. For more detailed information on building Ghostscript see
  91. <a href="Make.htm#Unix_build">how to build Ghostscript on Unix</a> in
  92. the documentation on building Ghostscript, especially regarding information
  93. on using the older <a href="Make.htm#UNIX_makefile">hand edited makefile</a>
  94. approach. Whatever configuration method you use, execute "<b><tt>make
  95. install</tt></b>" to install the executable and all the required and
  96. ancillary files after the build is complete.
  97. <h3><a name="Use_Acrobat_fonts_Unix"></a>Fonts</h3>
  98. <p>
  99. The makefile installs all the files except fonts under the directory
  100. defined in the makefile as <b><tt>prefix</tt></b>. Fonts need to be
  101. installed separately. The fonts should be installed in
  102. <tt><em>{prefix}</em>/share/ghostscript/fonts</tt>.
  103. (That is, <tt>/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/</tt> if you used the default
  104. configuration above.)
  105. <p>
  106. If you have Adobe Acrobat installed, you can use the Acrobat fonts
  107. in place of the ones distributed with with Ghostscript by adding the
  108. Acrobat fonts directory to
  109. <b><tt>GS_FONTPATH</tt></b> and removing these fonts from
  110. <b><tt>Fontmap.GS</tt></b>:
  111. <blockquote>
  112. Courier, Courier-Bold, Courier-BoldOblique, Courier-Oblique, Helvetica,
  113. Helvetica-Bold, Helvetica-BoldOblique, Helvetica-Oblique, Symbol, Times-Bold,
  114. Times-BoldItalic, Times-Italic, Times-Roman, ZapfDingbats
  115. </blockquote>
  116. <p>
  117. Similarly, you can have ghostscript use other fonts on your system by adding
  118. entries to the fontmap or adding the directories to the GS_FONTMAP environment
  119. variable. See the <a href="Use.htm#Font_lookup">usage documentation</a> for more
  120. information.
  121. For example, many linux distributions place fonts under <tt>/usr/share/fonts</tt>.
  122. <h3><a name="Shared_object"></a>Ghostscript as a shared object</h3>
  123. If you've built Ghostscript as a shared object, instead of '<tt>make install</tt>',
  124. you must use '<tt>make soinstall</tt>'.
  125. See <a href="Make.htm#Shared_object">how to build Ghostscript
  126. as a shared object</a> for more details.
  127. <h3><a name="Install_Linux"></a>Additional notes on Linux</h3>
  128. <p>
  129. For Linux, you may be able to install or upgrade Ghostscript from
  130. precompiled <a href="http://www.rpm.org">RPM</a> files using:
  131. <blockquote><b><tt>
  132. rpm -U ghostscript-N.NN-1.i386.rpm<br>
  133. rpm -U ghostscript-fonts-N.NN-1.noarch.rpm
  134. </tt></b></blockquote>
  135. <p>
  136. However, please note that we do not create RPMs for Ghostscript, and we take
  137. no responsibility for RPMs created by others.
  138. <hr>
  139. <h2><a name="Install_Windows"></a>Installing Ghostscript on MS Windows</h2>
  140. <p>
  141. We usually distribute Ghostscript releases for Windows as self-extracting
  142. archive files, since this is the most convenient form for users. These
  143. files can also be unpacked as if they were plain zip files.
  144. <p>
  145. The self-extracting archive is normally named
  146. <b><tt>gs###w32.exe</tt></b>,
  147. where ### is the release number (e.g., 650 for Ghostscript 6.50,
  148. 700 for Ghostscript 7.00).
  149. <h3><a name="Windows4"></a>Windows 95/98 and NT 4</h3>
  150. <p>
  151. To install a self-extracting Ghostscript archive on Windows 95/98 or
  152. Windows NT4/2000, you need just this self-extracting archive file.
  153. Run this file to install Ghostscript.
  154. <p>
  155. Alternatively, if you have the zip file, unzip it to a temporary
  156. directory then run the included <b><tt>setupgs.exe</tt></b>.
  157. After the setup program has finished, remove the temporary files.
  158. <p>
  159. After installing Ghostscript, it is strongly recommended that you
  160. install the <b>GSview previewer</b>,
  161. which provides an easier to use graphical interface for Ghostscript.
  162. Information on GSview is available from:
  163. <blockquote>
  164. <a
  165. href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/"
  166. class="offsite">http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/</a>
  167. </blockquote>
  168. <h3><a name="General_Windows"></a>General Windows configuration</h3>
  169. <p>
  170. The archive includes files in these subdirectories:
  171. <blockquote><b><tt>
  172. gs<em>#.##</em>\bin
  173. <br>gs<em>#.##</em>\lib
  174. <br>gs<em>#.##</em>\examples
  175. <br>gs<em>#.##</em>\doc
  176. <br>fonts
  177. </tt></b></blockquote>
  178. <p>
  179. The actual executable files, in the <b><tt>gs<em>#.##</em>\bin</tt></b>
  180. subdirectory, are:
  181. <blockquote><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
  182. <tr valign=top> <td><b><tt>GSWIN32.EXE</tt></b>
  183. <td>&nbsp;
  184. <td>32-bit Ghostscript using windows
  185. <tr valign=top> <td><b><tt>GSWIN32C.EXE</tt></b>
  186. <td>&nbsp;
  187. <td>32-bit Ghostscript using only the command line
  188. <tr valign=top> <td><b><tt>GSDLL32.DLL</tt></b>
  189. <td>&nbsp;
  190. <td>32-bit dynamic link library containing most of Ghostscript's
  191. functionality
  192. </table></blockquote>
  193. <p>
  194. See "<a href="#Install_DOS">Installing Ghostscript on DOS</a>" below for
  195. information about using Adobe Type Manager, Adobe Type Basics, or Adobe
  196. Acrobat fonts. If your system uses TrueType fonts, you can get them
  197. converted to a Ghostscript-compatible format at the time you select your
  198. "printer" by doing the following:
  199. <blockquote><ol>
  200. <li>Open control panel and double-click on the "Printers" icon.
  201. <li>Select your PostScript printer.
  202. <li>Choose Setup.
  203. <li>Choose Options.
  204. <li>Choose Advanced.
  205. <li>At the top of the dialog box you will see TrueType Fonts Send to
  206. Printer As: Choose <em>(drop-down menu)</em> Adobe Type 1.
  207. <li>Uncheck Use Printer Fonts for All TrueType Fonts and Use
  208. Substitution
  209. Table.
  210. <li>OK.
  211. <li>OK etc.
  212. </ol></blockquote>
  213. <p>
  214. That's it! Your TrueType fonts will automatically be downloaded in your
  215. PostScript file for Ghostscript to use.
  216. <p>
  217. For printer devices, the default output is:
  218. <blockquote><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
  219. <tr valign=top> <td>The default printer
  220. <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
  221. <td>Win95 or WinNT
  222. <tr valign=top> <td>Prompt for a printer port
  223. <td>&nbsp;
  224. <td>Win32s (Windows 3.1)
  225. </table></blockquote>
  226. <p>
  227. This can be modified as follows.
  228. <blockquote>
  229. <dl>
  230. <dt><b><tt>-sOutputFile="LPT1:"</tt></b>
  231. <dd>Output to the named port.
  232. <dt><b><tt>-sOutputFile="%printer%printer name"</tt></b> (Windows 95, 98,
  233. NT or 2000)
  234. <dd>Output to the named printer. If your printer is named "HP DeskJet 500"
  235. then you would use <tt>-sOutputFile="%printer%HP DeskJet 500"</tt>.
  236. <dt><b><tt>-sOutputFile="\\spool\printer name"</tt></b> (Windows 3.1/Win32s)
  237. <dd>Output to the named printer. Note that this is NOT a UNC name.
  238. </dl>
  239. </blockquote>
  240. <p>
  241. If Ghostscript fails to find an environment variable, it looks for a
  242. registry value of the same name under the key
  243. <blockquote><b><tt>
  244. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AFPL Ghostscript\#.##
  245. </tt></b></blockquote>
  246. <p>
  247. or if that fails, under the key
  248. <blockquote><b><tt>
  249. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\AFPL Ghostscript\#.##
  250. </tt></b></blockquote>
  251. <p>
  252. where #.## is the Ghostscript version number. This does not work under
  253. Win32s (that is, Windows 3.1, which doesn't support named registry
  254. values).
  255. <p>
  256. Ghostscript will attempt to load the Ghostscript dynamic link
  257. library <b><tt>GSDLL32.DLL</tt></b> in the following order:
  258. <ul>
  259. <li> In the same directory as the Ghostscript executable.
  260. <li> If the environment variable <b><tt>GS_DLL</tt></b> is defined,
  261. Ghostscript tries to load the Ghostscript dynamic link library (DLL)
  262. with the name given.
  263. <li> Using the standard Windows library search method: the directory
  264. from which the application loaded, the current directory, the Windows
  265. system directory, the Windows directory and the directories listed in
  266. the PATH environment variable.
  267. </ul>
  268. <p>
  269. The Ghostscript setup program will create registry values
  270. for the environment variables <b><tt>GS_LIB</tt></b>
  271. and <b><tt>GS_DLL</tt></b>.
  272. <h3><a name="Uninstall_Windows"></a>Uninstalling Ghostscript on Windows</h3>
  273. <p>
  274. To uninstall Ghostscript, use the Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs and
  275. remove "Ghostscript #.##" and "Ghostscript Fonts". (The entries may be
  276. called "Aladdin Ghostscript" or "AFPL Ghostscript", rather than just
  277. "Ghostscript", depending on what version of Ghostscript was installed.)
  278. <hr>
  279. <h2><a name="Install_VMS"></a>Installing Ghostscript on OpenVMS</h2>
  280. <p>
  281. You need the file <b><tt>GS.EXE</tt></b> to run Ghostscript on OpenVMS, and
  282. installing Ghostscript on an OpenVMS system requires building it first:
  283. please read <a href="Make.htm#VMS_build">how to build Ghostscript on VMS</a>
  284. in the documentation on building Ghostscript.
  285. <p>
  286. The following installation steps assume that the Ghostscript directory is
  287. <b><tt>DISK1:[DIR.GHOSTSCRIPT]</tt></b>. Yours will almost certainly be in
  288. a different location so adjust the following commands accordingly.
  289. <ul>
  290. <li>Download the fonts and unpack them into
  291. <b><tt>DISK1:[DIR.GHOSTSCRIPT.LIB]</tt></b>.
  292. <li>Enable access to the program and support files for all users with:
  293. <blockquote><pre>
  294. $ set file/prot=w:re DISK1:[DIR]GHOSTSCRIPT.dir
  295. $ set file/prot=w:re DISK1:[DIR.GHOSTSCRIPT...]*.*
  296. </pre></blockquote>
  297. <li>Optionally, add the Ghostscript help instructions to your system wide
  298. help file:
  299. <blockquote><pre>
  300. $ lib/help sys$help:HELPLIB.HLB DISK1:[DIR.GHOSTSCRIPT.DOC]GS-VMS.HLP
  301. </pre></blockquote>
  302. <li>Lastly, add the following lines to the appropriate system wide or user
  303. specific login script.
  304. <blockquote><pre>
  305. $ define gs_exe DISK1:[DIR.GHOSTSCRIPT.BIN]
  306. $ define gs_lib DISK1:[DIR.GHOSTSCRIPT.EXE]
  307. $ gs :== $gs_exe:gs.exe
  308. </pre></blockquote>
  309. </ul>
  310. <p>
  311. If you have DECWindows/Motif installed, you may wish to replace the
  312. <b><tt>FONTMAP.GS</tt></b> file with <b><tt>FONTMAP.VMS</tt></b>. Read the
  313. comment at the beginning of the latter file for more information.
  314. <hr>
  315. <h2><a name="Install_DOS"></a>Installing Ghostscript on DOS</h2>
  316. <p>
  317. You need the files <b><tt>GS386.EXE</tt></b> and <b><tt>DOS4GW.EXE</tt></b>
  318. to run Ghostscript. You should install all the files except the fonts in
  319. <b><tt>C:\GS</tt></b>, and the fonts in <b><tt>C:\GS\FONTS</tt></b>.
  320. <p><a name="Use_platform_fonts_DOS"></a> If you have Adobe Type Manager
  321. (ATM) fonts installed on your system, and you wish to use them with
  322. Ghostscript, you may wish to replace the <b><tt>FONTMAP</tt></b> file with
  323. <b><tt>FONTMAP.ATM</tt></b>, and to add to the environment variable
  324. <b><tt>GS_LIB</tt></b> the name of the directory where the fonts are located
  325. (see <a href="Use.htm#Finding_files">Use.htm</a> for more information
  326. about <b><tt>GS_LIB</tt></b>). Before you
  327. do this, please read carefully the license that accompanies the ATM fonts;
  328. we take no responsibility for any possible violations of such licenses.
  329. Similarly, if you have Adobe Type Basics, you may wish to replace
  330. <b><tt>FONTMAP</tt></b> with <b><tt>FONTMAP.ATB</tt></b>. Finally, if you
  331. have neither ATM nor ATB but you have Adobe Acrobat installed, you can use
  332. the Acrobat fonts in place of the ones provided with Ghostscript by adding
  333. the Acrobat fonts directory to <b><tt>GS_FONTPATH</tt></b> and removing
  334. these fonts from <b><tt>FONTMAP</tt></b>:
  335. <blockquote>
  336. Courier, Courier-Bold, Courier-BoldOblique, Courier-Oblique, Helvetica,
  337. Helvetica-Bold, Helvetica-BoldOblique, Helvetica-Oblique, Symbol, Times-Bold,
  338. Times-BoldItalic, Times-Italic, Times-Roman, ZapfDingbats
  339. </blockquote>
  340. <hr>
  341. <h2><a name="Install_OS2"></a>Installing Ghostscript on OS/2 2.x</h2>
  342. <p>
  343. The Ghostscript OS/2 implementation is designed for OS/2 2.1 or later. A
  344. few people have used it successfully under OS/2 2.0, but it has had very
  345. little testing. You need these files to run Ghostscript on OS/2:
  346. <blockquote><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
  347. <tr valign=top> <td><b><tt>GSOS2.EXE</tt></b>
  348. <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
  349. <td>A text application that will run windowed or full screen
  350. <tr valign=top> <td><b><tt>GSDLL2.DLL</tt></b>
  351. <td>&nbsp;
  352. <td>A dynamic link library that must be in the same directory as
  353. <b><tt>GSOS2.EXE</tt></b> or on the <b><tt>LIBPATH</tt></b>.
  354. <tr valign=top> <td><b><tt>GSPMDRV.EXE</tt></b>
  355. <td>&nbsp;
  356. <td>An "external driver" used by the "<b><tt>os2pm</tt></b>"
  357. device, which is normally the default device and which displays
  358. output in a Presentation Manager window;
  359. <b><tt>GSPMDRV.EXE</tt></b> must be located in the same
  360. directory as <b><tt>GSOS2.EXE</tt></b> or on the
  361. <b><tt>PATH</tt></b>
  362. </table></blockquote>
  363. <p>
  364. <b><tt>GSOS2.EXE</tt></b>, <b><tt>GSDLL2.DLL</tt></b> and
  365. <b><tt>GSPMDRV.EXE</tt></b> are compiled using EMX/GCC 0.9d. You must have
  366. the EMX DLLs on your <b><tt>LIBPATH</tt></b>; they are available in a
  367. package <b><tt>emxrt.zip</tt></b> from many places on the Internet, so you
  368. can find the package by using a search engine or an ftp lookup service such
  369. as the one at
  370. <blockquote>
  371. <a href="http://ftpsearch.lycos.com/"
  372. class="offset">http://ftpsearch.lycos.com/</a>
  373. </blockquote>
  374. <p>
  375. The system menu of the Ghostscript Image window includes a "Copy" command
  376. to copy the currently displayed bitmap to the Clipboard.
  377. <p>
  378. OS/2 comes with some Adobe Type Manager fonts. If you wish to use these with
  379. Ghostscript, you should replace the <b><tt>FONTMAP</tt></b> file with
  380. <b><tt>FONTMAP.OS2</tt></b>, and add to the environment variable
  381. <b><tt>GS_LIB</tt></b> (see <a href="Use.htm#Finding_files">Use.htm</a>
  382. for more information about
  383. <b><tt>GS_LIB</tt></b>) the name of the directory where the fonts are
  384. located, usually <b><tt>C:\PSFONTS</tt></b>. Before you do this, please
  385. read carefully the license that accompanies the ATM fonts; we take no
  386. responsibility for any possible violations of such licenses.
  387. <p>
  388. Since <b><tt>GSOS2.EXE</tt></b> is not a PM application, it cannot
  389. determine the depth of the PM display. You must provide this information
  390. using the <b><tt>-dBitsPerPixel</tt></b> option. Valid values are 1, 4, 8
  391. (the default), and 24.
  392. <blockquote><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
  393. <tr valign=bottom>
  394. <th align=left>Use
  395. <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
  396. <th align=left>For
  397. <tr> <td colspan=3><hr>
  398. <tr valign=top> <td><b><tt>-dBitsPerPixel=1</tt></b>
  399. <td>&nbsp;
  400. <td>VGA monochrome
  401. <tr valign=top> <td><b><tt>-dBitsPerPixel=4</tt></b>
  402. <td>&nbsp;
  403. <td>VGA standard
  404. <tr valign=top> <td><b><tt>-dBitsPerPixel=8</tt></b>
  405. <td>&nbsp;
  406. <td>SVGA 256 colors
  407. </table></blockquote>
  408. <p>
  409. A command file <b><tt>gspm.cmd</tt></b> containing the following line may
  410. be useful:
  411. <blockquote><b><tt>
  412. @c:\gs\gsos2.exe -Ic:/gs;c:/gs/fonts;c:/psfonts -sDEVICE=os2pm -dBitsPerPixel=8 -sPAPERSIZE=a4 %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8
  413. </tt></b></blockquote>
  414. <p>
  415. While drawing, the <b><tt>os2pm</tt></b> driver updates the display every 5
  416. seconds. On slow computers this is undesirable, and a different interval
  417. can be specified in milliseconds with the <b><tt>-dUpdateInterval</tt></b>
  418. option, with a default of <b><tt>-dUpdateInterval=5000</tt></b>; to disable
  419. update, use <b><tt>-dUpdateInterval=0</tt></b>.
  420. <p>
  421. Standard VGA is very slow because it uses double buffering to avoid bugs
  422. and because of 1-plane to 4-plane conversion; it's better to use a
  423. 256-color display driver. Many display drivers have bugs which cause 1
  424. bit-per-pixel bitmaps to be displayed incorrectly.
  425. <p>
  426. <b><tt>GSOS2.EXE</tt></b> and <b><tt>GSPMDRV.EXE</tt></b> will stay in
  427. memory for the number of minutes specified in the environment variable
  428. <b><tt>GS_LOAD</tt></b>.
  429. <p>
  430. If you run <b><tt>GS386</tt></b> in the OS/2 2.0 or 2.1 DOS box, you must
  431. select the "ENABLED" setting for the DPMI_DOS_API option of the DOS box.
  432. <b><tt>GS386</tt></b> will not run with the "AUTO" setting.
  433. <p>
  434. For printer devices, output goes to the default queue. To print to a
  435. specified queue, use <b><tt>-sOutputFile=\\spool\NullLPT1</tt></b>, where
  436. <b><tt>NullLPT1</tt></b> is the queue's physical name.
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  445. implied.
  446. This software is distributed under license and may not be copied,
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  449. For more information about licensing, please refer to
  450. http://www.ghostscript.com/licensing/. For information on
  451. commercial licensing, go to http://www.artifex.com/licensing/ or
  452. contact Artifex Software, Inc., 101 Lucas Valley Road #110,
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