gs(1)

NAME

gs - Ghostscript (PostScript and PDF language interpreter

and previewer)

SYNOPSIS

gs [ options ] [ files ] ... (Unix, VMS)
gswin32c [ options ] [ files ] ... (MS Windows)
gswin32 [ options ] [ files ] ... (MS Windows 3.1)
gsos2 [ options ] [ files ] ... (OS/2)

DESCRIPTION

The gs (gswin32c, gswin32, gsos2) command invokes

Ghostscript

Portable Document Format

Arraygs -sDEVICE=bbox golfer.ps

prints out

%%BoundingBox: 0 25 583 732
%%HiResBoundingBox: 0.808497 25.009496 582.994503

731.809445

OPTIONS

Array"token" operator) and may contain no whitespace.
-Dname
-dname Define a name in "systemdict" with value=null.

Array-D, -d, -S, or -s cannot be changed (although, of course, they can be superseded by definitions in "userdict" or other dictionaries.)

SPECIAL NAMES

Array-sOutputFile=filename

Selects an alternate output file (or pipe) for the

initial output device, as described above.

FILES

Array/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/*

More font definitions

/usr/local/share/ghostscript/#.##/examples/*

Ghostscript demonstration files

/usr/local/share/ghostscript/#.##/doc/*

Diverse document files

INITIALIZATION FILES

Arrayrated by ":".

ENVIRONMENT

ArrayGS_DEVICE

Used to specify an output device

GS_FONTPATH
Path names used to search for fonts

GS_LIB Path names for initialization files and fonts

TEMP Where temporary files are made

X RESOURCES

Array% xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources

SEE ALSO

The various Ghostscript document files (above), especially

Use.htm

BUGS

See the Usenet news group comp.lang.postscript.

VERSION

This document was last revised for Ghostscript version

8.15.

AUTHOR

ArrayRussell J. Lang, gsview at ghostgum.com.au, is the author of most
of the MS Windows code in Ghostscript.
8.15 22 September 2004

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