Editing Ghostscript (section)

== Features ==
Ghostscript can be used as a [[raster image processor]] (RIP) for raster [[computer printer]]s—for instance, as an input filter of [[Berkeley printing system|line printer daemon]]—or as the RIP engine behind PostScript and PDF viewers. It can also be used as a file format converter, such as PostScript to PDF converter. The <code>ps2pdf</code> conversion program comes with the Ghostscript distribution.<ref name="ps2pdf">{{cite web |url=http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/current/Ps2pdf.htm |title=ps2pdf: PostScript-to-PDF converter |access-date=2014-08-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720064556/http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/current/Ps2pdf.htm |archive-date=2011-07-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Ghostscript can also serve as the back-end for PDF to [[raster image]] (png, tiff, jpeg, etc.) converter; this is often combined with a PostScript printer driver in "[[virtual printer]]" PDF creators.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stat.tamu.edu/~henrik/GSWriter/GSWriter.html|title=Creating a Free PDF Writer Using Ghostscript|website=www.stat.tamu.edu|access-date=2017-06-02|archive-date=2017-10-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171027212125/http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~henrik/GSWriter/GSWriter.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{citation needed|date=August 2014}} As it takes the form of a language interpreter, Ghostscript can also be used as a general purpose programming environment.

Ghostscript has been [[porting|ported]] to many operating systems, including [[Unix-like]] systems, [[classic Mac OS]], [[OpenVMS]], [[Microsoft Windows]], [[Plan 9 from Bell Labs|Plan 9]], [[MS-DOS]], [[FreeDOS]], [[OS/2]], [[ArcaOS]], [[Atari TOS]], [[RISC OS]] and [[AmigaOS]].