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pl197807@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (Mario Rodriguez F.) writes:

| david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) writes:
| >Ghostscript is a clone of Poststript.
| >Ghostscript is used to display graphics on a screen or to prepare a
| >file for printing on non-postscript printers.  -David-
| 
| I myself want to make one question: where are the sources for Ghostscript?

The sources for GhostScript are in prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu.  The current
revision is 2.3, although I was unable to get 2.3 to cooperate with some
previewers like GhostView and GSPreview (I was however, able to get GhostView
to work with GS 2.2).  Note that you'll need the fonts, which are included
in a separate archive file.

A clarification as to "What is GhostScript?".  GhostScript is a PostScript
interpreter.  It understands the PostScript language and acts upon various
commands in the language.  GS comes with drivers for several different types of
devices, including printers (laser as well as dot-matrix) and video (such as
EGA, VGA, and X11).  You can compile several different drivers into a single GS
binary and select the driver you want at run-time.  The various drivers let you
use GhostScript as a PostScript driver for a non-PS printer or as a PostScript
previewer.

Eric
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