Editing Ghostscript (section)

{{Short description|Interpreter for the PostScript language}}
{{Infobox software
| name                   = Ghostscript
| logo                   = Ghostscript.svg
| author                 = [[L. Peter Deutsch]]
| developer              = Artifex Software<ref>{{cite web|url= https://ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-commits/2002-July/002087.html|title= Documentation|date= July 10, 2002|website= ghostscript.com|access-date= May 23, 2017|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180228163405/https://ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-commits/2002-July/002087.html|archive-date= February 28, 2018|url-status= dead}}</ref>
| released               = {{Start date and age|1988|8|11}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ghostscript.com/doc/current/History1.htm#Version1.0 |title=History of Ghostscript versions 1.n |access-date=2007-04-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070208160329/http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/current/History1.htm#Version1.0 |archive-date=2007-02-08 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| discontinued           = 
| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|reference|P348}}
| latest release date    = {{start date and age|{{wikidata|qualifier|P348|P577}}}}
| latest preview version =
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| programming language   = [[C (programming language)|C]]
| operating system       = [[Cross-platform]]
| genre                  = [[PostScript]] and [[Portable Document Format|PDF]] interpreter
| license                = Dual-licensed ([[GNU Affero General Public License]] + commercial permissive exception)
| website                = {{URL|https://www.ghostscript.com/}}
}}
'''Ghostscript''' is a suite of software based on an [[Interpreter (computing)|interpreter]] for [[Adobe Systems]]' [[PostScript]] and [[Portable Document Format]] (PDF) [[page description language]]s. Its main purposes are the [[rasterization]] or [[Rendering (computer graphics)|rendering]] of such page description language<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ghostscript.com/doc/9.21/Language.htm|title=Ghostscript and the PostScript language|website=ghostscript.com|access-date=2017-05-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170930040120/https://ghostscript.com/doc/9.21/Language.htm|archive-date=2017-09-30|url-status=dead}}</ref> files, for the display or printing of document pages, and the conversion between PostScript and PDF files.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZyB5dt756HQC&dq=Ghostscript&pg=PA100|title=Open Life: The Philosophy of Open Source|first=Henrik|last=Ingo|date=1 August 2006|publisher=Lulu.com|isbn=9781847286116|via=Google Books}}</ref>