Table of Contents

• Introduction
  • What is Ghostscript?
    • Ghostscript
    • GhostPDF
    • GhostPDL
    • GhostPCL
    • GhostXPS
    • URW Font Information
  • Document roadmap by theme
    • What should I read if I’m a new user?
    • GPL and commercial Ghostscript
    • Before building Ghostscript
    • What should I read if I’m not a new user?
    • What if I’m a developer?
    • What if I’m writing documentation?
  • Presence on the World Wide Web
    • Ghostscript’s home page
    • Adobe PostScript, Encapsulated PostScript, and PDF reference documentation
    • Other material on the WWW
• How to Build Ghostscript from Source Code
  • General overview
  • Built libraries
  • How to acquire the source code
  • How to acquire the development source code
  • How to unpack the source code
    • How to unpack compressed tar files generally
    • How to unpack Ghostscript itself
    • Ghostscript Core Source subdirectories
    • Additional GhostPDL source subdirectories
  • How to check for post-release bug fixes
  • How to prepare the makefiles
    • Platform-specific makefiles
    • Changes for your environment
    • Selecting features and devices
      • Precompiled run-time data
    • Setting up “makefile”
    • Invoking “make”
    • Cross-compiling
  • How to build Ghostscript from source (PC version)
    • Microsoft Visual Studio
      • Using Microsoft Visual Studio
      • Further details
      • Using the command line
    • Microsoft Environment for 64-bit
      • Making self-extracting installers
    • Microsoft Environment for WinRT
    • Cygwin32 gcc
      • MSys/Mingw
  • How to build Ghostscript from source (MacOS version)
    • MacOS X
  • How to build Ghostscript from source (Unix version)
    • make tools
      • GNU make
    • OS-specific issues
      • MacOS or Linux / OpenBSD
      • H-P RISC workstations
      • IBM AIX
      • Silicon Graphics
    • Oracle/Sun
    • Solaris
  • Other environments
    • Environments lacking multi-threading
    • Plan 9
  • How to build Ghostscript with UFST
• How to Install Ghostscript
  • Overview of how to install Ghostscript
  • Installing Ghostscript on Unix
    • Fonts
    • Ghostscript as a shared object
    • Additional notes on Linux
  • Installing Ghostscript on MS Windows
    • Windows 3.1 (16-bit)
    • Windows 95, 98, Me
    • Windows NT4, 2000, XP, 2003 or Vista (32-bit)
    • Windows XP x64 edition, 2003 or Vista (64-bit)
    • Installing
    • General Windows configuration
    • Uninstalling Ghostscript on Windows
  • Installing Ghostscript on OpenVMS
• Using Ghostscript
  • Invoking Ghostscript
    • Help at the command line: gs -h
  • Selecting an output device
    • Output resolution
    • Output to files
      • One page per file
      • -o option
    • Choosing paper size
    • Changing the installed default paper size
  • Interacting with pipes
  • Using Ghostscript with PDF files
    • Switches for PDF files
      • -dNEWPDF
      • -dPDFINFO
      • -dPDFFitPage
      • -dPrinted & -dPrinted=false
      • -dUseBleedBox
      • -dUseTrimBox
      • -dUseArtBox
      • -dUseCropBox
      • -sPDFPassword=password
      • -dShowAnnots=false
      • -dShowAcroForm=false
      • -dNoUserUnit
      • -dRENDERTTNOTDEF
      • -dFirstPage=pagenumber
      • -dLastPage=pagenumber
      • -sPageList=pageranges
    • Problems interpreting a PDF file
    • PDF files from standard input
  • Using Ghostscript with EPS files
  • Using Ghostscript with overprinting and spot colors
  • How Ghostscript finds files
    • Testing a file name for an absolute path
    • Finding PostScript Level 2 resources
    • Font lookup
      • Differences between search path and font path
      • Suggested GS_FONTPATH for different systems
    • CID fonts
    • CID font substitution
      • Automatic CIDFont Substitution
      • Explicit CIDFont Substitution
      • Format 1
      • Format 2
      • Format 3
      • Examples
    • Using Unicode True Type fonts
    • Temporary files
      • Where Ghostscript puts temporary files
  • Notes on specific platforms
    • Word size (32 or 64 bits)
    • Unix
      • pv.sh
      • sysvlp.sh
      • pj-gs.sh
      • unix-lpr.sh
      • lprsetup.sh
    • VMS
      • Using X Windows on VMS
    • MS Windows
    • MS-DOS
    • X Windows
      • X Windows resources
      • X resources
      • Working around bugs in X servers
      • X device parameters
        • AlwaysUpdate <boolean>
        • MaxBitmap <integer>
        • MaxTempPixmap, MaxTempImage <integer>
      • SCO Unix
  • Command line options
    • General switches
      • Input control
        • @filename
        • – filename arg1 …
        • -+ filename arg1 …
        • -@ filename arg1 …
        • -
        • -_
        • -c token …
        • -c string …
        • -f
        • -f filename
      • File searching
        • -I directories
        • -P
        • -P-
      • Setting parameters
        • -D name, -d name
        • -D name=token, -d name=token
        • -S name=string, -s name=string
        • -p name=string
        • -u name
        • -g number1 x number2
        • -r number (same as -r number x number)
        • -r number1 x number2
      • Suppress messages
        • -q
    • Parameter switches (-d and -s)
      • Rendering parameters
        • -dCOLORSCREEN
        • -dCOLORSCREEN=0
        • -dCOLORSCREEN=false
        • -dDITHERPPI= lpi
        • -dInterpolateControl= control_value
        • -dDOINTERPOLATE
        • -dNOINTERPOLATE
        • -dTextAlphaBits= n
        • -dGraphicsAlphaBits= n
        • -dAlignToPixels= n
        • -dGridFitTT= n
        • -dUseCIEColor
        • -dNOCIE
        • -dNOSUBSTDEVICECOLORS
        • -dNOPSICC
        • -dNOTRANSPARENCY
        • -dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY
        • -dNO_TN5044
        • -dDOPS
        • -dBlackText
        • -dBlackVector
        • -dBlackThresholdL= float
        • -dBlackThresholdC= float
      • Page parameters
        • -dFirstPage= pagenumber
        • -dLastPage= pagenumber
        • -sPageList= pagenumber
        • -dFIXEDMEDIA
        • -dFIXEDRESOLUTION
        • -dPSFitPage
        • -dORIENT1=true
        • -dORIENT1=false
        • -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS= w
        • -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS= h
        • -sDEFAULTPAPERSIZE= a4
        • -dFitPage
        • -sNupControl= Nup_option_string
      • Font-related parameters
        • -dLOCALFONTS
        • -dNOFONTMAP
        • -dNOFONTPATH
        • -dNOPLATFONTS
        • -dNONATIVEFONTMAP
        • -sFONTMAP= filename1;filename2;…
        • -sFONTPATH= dir1;dir2;…
        • -sSUBSTFONT= fontname
      • Resource-related parameters
        • -sGenericResourceDir= path
        • -sFontResourceDir= path
      • Interaction-related parameters
        • -dBATCH
        • -dNOPAGEPROMPT
        • -dNOPAUSE
        • -dNOPROMPT
        • -dQUIET
        • -dSHORTERRORS
        • -sstdout= filename
        • -dTTYPAUSE
      • Device and output selection parameters
        • -dNODISPLAY
        • -sDEVICE= device
        • -sOutputFile= filename
        • -d.IgnoreNumCopies= true
      • Deferred Page Rendering
      • EPS parameters
        • -dEPSCrop
        • -dEPSFitPage
        • -dNOEPS
      • ICC color parameters
        • -sDefaultGrayProfile= filename
        • -sDefaultRGBProfile= filename
        • -sDefaultCMYKProfile= filename
        • -sDeviceNProfile= filename
        • -sOutputICCProfile= filename
        • -sICCOutputColors= “Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black, Orange, Violet”
        • -sProofProfile= filename
        • -sDeviceLinkProfile= filename
        • -sNamedProfile= filename
        • -sBlendColorProfile= filename
        • -dColorAccuracy= 0/1/2
        • -dRenderIntent= 0/1/2/3
        • -dBlackPtComp= 0/1
        • -dKPreserve= 0/1/2
        • -sVectorICCProfile= filename
        • -dVectorIntent= 0/1/2/3
        • -dVectorBlackPt= 0/1
        • -dVectorKPreserve= 0/1/2
        • -sImageICCProfile= filename
        • -dImageIntent= 0/1/2/3
        • -dImageBlackPt= 0/1
        • -dImageKPreserve= 0/1/2
        • -sTextICCProfile= filename
        • -dTextIntent= 0/1/2/3
        • -dTextBlackPt= 0/1
        • -dTextKPreserve= 0/1/2
        • -dOverrideICC
        • -sSourceObjectICC= filename
        • -dDeviceGrayToK= true/false
        • -dUseFastColor= true/false
        • -dSimulateOverprint= true/false
        • -dOverprint= /enable | /disable | /simulate
        • -dUsePDFX3Profile= int
        • -sUseOutputIntent= string
        • -sICCProfilesDir= path
      • Other parameters
        • -dFILTERIMAGE
        • -dFILTERTEXT
        • -dFILTERVECTOR
        • -dDELAYBIND
        • -dDOPDFMARKS
        • -dJOBSERVER
        • -dNOCACHE
        • -dNOGC
        • -dNOOUTERSAVE
        • -dNOSAFER
        • -dSAFER
        • -dOLDSAFER
        • -dPreBandThreshold= true/false
        • -dWRITESYSTEMDICT
  • Improving performance
  • Summary of environment variables
    • GS, GSC (MS Windows only)
    • GS_DEVICE
    • GS_FONTPATH
    • GS_LIB
    • GS_OPTIONS
    • TEMP, TMPDIR
  • Debugging
    • Debug switches
      • Switches used in debugging
    • Visual Trace
  • Appendix: Paper sizes known to Ghostscript
    • U.S. standard
    • ISO standard
    • JIS standard
    • ISO/JIS switchable
    • Other
• API
  • What is the Ghostscript Interpreter API?
  • Exported functions
    • gsapi_revision()
    • gsapi_new_instance()
    • gsapi_delete_instance()
    • gsapi_set_stdio_with_handle()
    • gsapi_set_stdio()
    • gsapi_set_poll_with_handle()
    • gsapi_set_poll()
    • gsapi_set_display_callback()
    • gsapi_register_callout()
    • gsapi_deregister_callout()
    • gsapi_set_arg_encoding()
    • gsapi_set_default_device_list()
    • gsapi_get_default_device_list()
    • gsapi_init_with_args()
    • gsapi_run_*()
    • gsapi_exit()
    • gsapi_set_param()
    • gsapi_get_param()
    • gsapi_enumerate_params()
    • gsapi_add_control_path()
    • gsapi_remove_control_path()
    • gsapi_purge_control_paths()
    • gsapi_activate_path_control()
    • gsapi_is_path_control_active()
    • gsapi_add_fs
    • gsapi_remove_fs
    • gsapi_fs_t
  • Callouts
  • Return codes
    • Return Codes from gsapi_*()
  • Example Usage
    • Example 1
    • Example 2
    • Example 3
    • Example 4
  • Multiple Threads
  • Standard Input and Output
  • Display Device
    • Legacy method
    • Modern method
    • display_open()
    • display_preclose()
    • display_close()
    • display_presize()
    • display_size()
    • display_sync()
    • display_page()
    • display_update()
    • display_memalloc()
    • display_memfree()
    • display_separation()
    • display_adjust_band_height()
    • display_rectangle_request()
• Language Bindings
  • The C API
  • Licensing
    • Open Source license
    • Commercial license
  • Demo code
  • C#
    • Introduction
    • Platform & setup
    • GhostAPI
      • Structs and Enums
        • gsapi_revision_t
        • gs_set_param_type
        • gsEncoding
      • Constants
        • gsConstants
      • GSAPI
        • gsapi_revision
        • gsapi_new_instance
        • gsapi_delete_instance
        • gsapi_set_stdio_with_handle
        • gsapi_set_stdio
        • gsapi_set_poll_with_handle
        • gsapi_set_poll
        • gsapi_set_display_callback
        • gsapi_register_callout
        • gsapi_deregister_callout
        • gsapi_set_arg_encoding
        • gsapi_set_default_device_list
        • gsapi_get_default_device_list
        • gsapi_init_with_args
        • gsapi_run_*
        • gsapi_run_string_begin
        • gsapi_run_string_continue
        • gsapi_run_string_with_length
        • gsapi_run_string
        • gsapi_run_string_end
        • gsapi_run_file
        • gsapi_exit
        • gsapi_set_param
        • gsapi_get_param
        • gsapi_enumerate_params
        • gsapi_add_control_path
        • gsapi_remove_control_path
        • gsapi_purge_control_paths
        • gsapi_activate_path_control
        • gsapi_is_path_control_active
      • Callback and Callout prototypes
        • gs_stdio_handler
        • gsPollHandler
        • gsCallOut
    • GhostNET
      • Enums
        • Tasks
        • Results
        • Status
      • The Parameter Struct
        • Parameters explained
      • The Event class
      • GSNET
        • Sample code
        • Delegates
          • DLLProblemCallBack
          • StdIOCallBack
          • ProgressCallBack
          • PageRenderedCallBack
        • GetVersion
        • DisplayDeviceOpen
        • DisplayDeviceClose
        • GetPageCount
        • CreateXPS
        • DistillPS
        • DisplayDeviceRunFile
        • DisplayDeviceRenderThumbs
        • DisplayDeviceRenderPages
        • GetStatus
        • Cancel
        • GhostscriptException
    • GhostMono
      • Enums
        • Tasks
        • Results
        • Status
      • The Parameter Struct
        • Parameters explained
      • The Event class
      • GSMONO
        • Delegates
          • DLLProblemCallBack
          • StdIOCallBack
          • ProgressCallBack
          • PageRenderedCallBack
        • GetVersion
        • DisplayDeviceOpen
        • DisplayDeviceClose
        • GetPageCount
        • DistillPS
        • DisplayDeviceRenderAll
        • DisplayDeviceRenderThumbs
        • DisplayDeviceRenderPages
        • GetStatus
        • GhostscriptException
  • Java
    • Introduction
    • Platform & setup
      • jni: Building the Java Native Interface
        • Preparing your include folder
        • Building on Windows
        • Building on MacOS
        • Building on Linux
      • gsjava: Building the JAR
        • Building with the command line
        • Building with Eclipse
        • Linking the JAR
    • Demo projects
      • gstest
      • gsviewer
        • Building on Windows
        • Running on Windows
        • Building on MacOS
        • Running on MacOS
        • Building on Linux
        • Running on Linux
    • Using the Java library
      • gsjava
      • GSAPI & GSInstance
      • GSAPI
        • gsapi_revision
          • GSAPI.Revision
        • gsapi_new_instance
        • gsapi_delete_instance
        • gsapi_set_stdio_with_handle
        • gsapi_set_stdio
        • gsapi_set_poll_with_handle
        • gsapi_set_poll
        • gsapi_set_display_callback
        • gsapi_register_callout
        • gsapi_deregister_callout
        • gsapi_set_arg_encoding
        • gsapi_set_default_device_list
        • gsapi_get_default_device_list
        • gsapi_init_with_args
        • gsapi_run_*
        • gsapi_run_string_begin
        • gsapi_run_string_continue
        • gsapi_run_string_with_length
        • gsapi_run_string
        • gsapi_run_string_end
        • gsapi_run_file
        • gsapi_exit
        • gsapi_set_param
        • gsapi_get_param
        • gsapi_enumerate_params
        • gsapi_add_control_path
        • gsapi_remove_control_path
        • gsapi_purge_control_paths
        • gsapi_activate_path_control
        • gsapi_is_path_control_active
      • Callback & Callout interfaces
        • IStdInFunction
        • IStdOutFunction
        • IStdErrFunction
        • IPollFunction
        • ICalloutFunction
      • GSInstance
        • Constructors
        • delete_instance
        • set_stdio
        • set_poll
        • set_display_callback
        • register_callout
        • deregister_callout
        • set_arg_encoding
        • set_default_device_list
        • get_default_device_list
        • init_with_args
        • run_string_begin
        • run_string_continue
        • run_string
        • run_file
        • exit
        • set_param
        • get_param
        • enumerate_params
        • add_control_path
        • remove_control_path
        • purge_control_paths
        • activate_path_control
        • is_path_control_active
      • Utility classes
        • com.artifex.gsjava.util.Reference
  • Python
    • Introduction
    • Platform & setup
      • Specifying the Ghostscript shared library
      • API test
    • The gsapi Python module
      • gsapi_revision()
      • gsapi_new_instance(caller_handle)
      • gsapi_delete_instance(instance)
      • gsapi_set_stdio(instance, stdin_fn, stdout_fn, stderr_fn)
      • gsapi_set_poll(instance, poll_fn)
      • gsapi_set_display_callback(instance, callback)
      • gsapi_set_arg_encoding(instance, encoding)
      • gsapi_set_default_device_list(instance, list_)
      • gsapi_get_default_device_list(instance)
      • gsapi_init_with_args(instance, args)
      • gsapi_run_*
      • gsapi_run_string_begin(instance, user_errors)
      • gsapi_run_string_continue(instance, str_, user_errors)
      • gsapi_run_string_with_length(instance, str_, length, user_errors)
      • gsapi_run_string(instance, str_, user_errors)
      • gsapi_run_string_end(instance, user_errors)
      • gsapi_run_file(instance, filename, user_errors)
      • gsapi_exit(instance)
      • gsapi_set_param(instance, param, value, type_=None)
      • gsapi_get_param(instance, param, type_=None, encoding=None)
      • gsapi_enumerate_params(instance)
      • gsapi_add_control_path(instance, type_, path)
      • gsapi_remove_control_path(instance, type_, path)
      • gsapi_purge_control_paths(instance, type_)
      • gsapi_activate_path_control(instance, enable)
      • gsapi_is_path_control_active(instance)
• Details of Ghostscript Output Devices
  • Notes on measurements
    • Inches
    • Centimeters and millimeters
    • Points
    • Dots per inch
    • Bits per pixel
  • Image file formats
    • PNG file format
      • Options
      • Examples
    • JPEG file format (JFIF)
      • Options
      • Examples
    • PNM
    • TIFF file formats
      • Options
    • FAX
    • BMP
    • PCX
    • PSD
    • PDF
  • Optical Character Recognition (OCR) devices
    • OCR text output
    • PDF image output (with OCR text)
    • Vector PDF output (with OCR Unicode CMaps)
  • High level devices
    • PDF writer
    • PS2 writer
    • EPS writer
    • PXL
    • Text output
  • Display devices
    • X Window System
    • Display device (MS Windows, OS/2, gtk+)
      • Options
  • IJS - Inkjet and other raster devices
    • Building IJS
  • Rinkj - Resplendent inkjet driver
  • HP Deskjet official drivers
  • Gimp-Print driver collection
  • MS Windows printers
    • Supported command-line parameters
    • Supported options (device properties)
    • Duplex printing
  • Sun SPARCprinter
    • Installation
    • Problems
  • Apple dot matrix printer
  • Special and Test devices
    • Raw ‘bit’ devices
    • Bounding box output
    • Ink coverage output
    • Permutation (DeviceN color model)
    • spotcmyk (DeviceN color model)
    • XCF (DeviceN color model)
• High Level Devices
  • PCL-XL (PXL)
    • Options
  • Text output
    • Options
  • DOCX output
  • XPS file output
  • The family of PDF and PostScript output devices
    • Common controls and features
      • Distiller Parameters
        • Note 0
        • Note 1
        • Note 2
        • Note 3
        • Note 4
        • Note 5
        • Note 6
        • Note 7
        • Note 8
        • Note 9
        • Note 10
        • Note 11
        • Note 12
        • Note 13
        • Note 14
        • Note 15
        • Note 16
      • Color Conversion and Management
      • Setting page orientation
    • Controls and features specific to PostScript and PDF input
    • Controls and features specific to PCL and PXL input
      • Example creation of a PDF/A output file
      • Example using DISTILLERPARAMS to set the quality of JPEG compression
    • PDF file output
    • PostScript file output
      • Controlling device specific behaviour
    • Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) file output
  • Creating a PDF/X-3 document
  • Creating a PDF/A document
  • Ghostscript PDF Printer Description
    • Windows XP or 2000
  • pdfmark extensions
  • Limitations
• The Interface between Ghostscript and Device Drivers
  • Adding a driver
  • Keeping things simple
  • Driver structure
    • Structure definition
    • For sophisticated developers only
  • Coordinates and types
    • Coordinate system
    • Color definition
      • Separable and linear fields
      • Changing color_info data
    • Types
  • Coding conventions
    • Allocating storage
    • Driver instance allocation
  • Printer drivers
  • Printer drivers (Multi-threaded)
  • Driver procedures
    • Life cycle
    • Open, close, sync, copy
    • Color and alpha mapping
    • Pixel-level drawing
      • Bitmap imaging
      • Pixmap imaging
      • Compositing
    • Polygon-level drawing
    • Linear color drawing
    • High-level drawing
      • Paths
      • The function specification f
      • Images
      • Text
      • Unicode support for high level (vector) devices
    • Reading bits back
    • Parameters
      • Default color rendering dictionary (CRD) parameters
      • Device parameters affecting interpretation
    • Page devices
    • Miscellaneous
    • Device Specific Operations
  • Tray selection
    • Tray rotation and the LeadingEdge parameter
    • Interaction between LeadingEdge and PageSize
• Ghostscript and the PostScript Language
  • Ghostscript’s capabilities in relation to PostScript
  • Implementation limits
    • Architectural limits
    • Typical memory limits in LanguageLevel 1
    • Other differences in VM consumption
  • Additional operators in Ghostscript
    • Graphics and text operators
      • Transparency
        • Graphics state operators
        • Rendering stack operators
        • New ImageType
      • Other graphics state operators
      • Character operators
    • Other operators
      • Mathematical operators
      • Dictionary operators
      • File operators
      • Miscellaneous operators
      • Device operators
  • Filters
    • Standard filters
    • Non-standard filters
    • Unstable filters
  • Device parameters
  • User parameters
  • Miscellaneous additions
    • Extended semantics of ‘run’
    • Decoding resources
    • CIDDecoding resources
    • GlyphNames2Unicode
    • Multiple Resource directories
  • Scripting the PDF interpreter
    • PostScript functions
    • PostScript operators interfacing to the PDF interpreter
• The Ghostscript Library
  • PostScript operator API
    • Patterns
    • Lower-level API
  • Visual Trace instructions
    • Visual Trace instructions semantics
    • vd_trace_interface structure
  • A full example
• Information for Ghostscript Developers
  • Introduction
  • Architecture
    • Design Goals
      • Functionality
      • Performance
      • Licensing
      • Other
  • Design principles
    • Non-preemption
    • Multi-instantiability
    • Late configuration binding
    • Large-scale structure
    • Object-oriented constructs
  • File roadmap
    • Substrate
      • Runtime Context
      • Memory manager
      • Streams
      • Platform-specific code
      • Miscellaneous
    • Graphics library
      • Support
      • Paths
      • Text
      • Images
      • Paint
      • Clipping
      • Other graphics
      • Font API support
      • Driver support
      • Visual Trace
    • Device drivers
      • Internal devices
      • PostScript and PDF writers
        • Shared support
        • PDF output driver (pdfwrite)
        • Other high-level devices
        • Other maintained drivers
        • Window system drivers
        • Raster file output drivers
        • Printer drivers
        • Contributed drivers
    • PostScript interpreter
      • Main program
      • Data structures
      • Stacks
      • Interpreter loop
      • Scanning/parsing
      • Standard operators
      • Non-standard operators
      • Interpreter support
      • PostScript code
    • PDF interpreter
    • PostScript Printer Description
    • Build process
      • Makefile structure
      • .dev files
      • Generators
      • Support
    • Utilities
      • Utilities in PostScript
      • Utility scripts
  • Memory management
    • Memory manager architecture
      • Objects vs strings
      • Structure descriptors
      • Garbage collection
      • Movability
      • Parent hierarchy
      • Allocator API
    • Freeing storage
      • Explicit freeing
      • Reference counting
      • (Real) garbage collection
    • Special implementations
      • malloc
      • Locking
      • Retrying
      • Chunk
    • Standard implementation
    • PostScript interpreter extensions
      • Refs (PostScript “objects”)
      • Stable allocators
      • Garbage collection
    • Portability
      • Structural mechanisms
        • CPU and compiler
        • Library headers
        • Cross-platform APIs
        • Makefiles
      • Coding standards
        • Explicit dependencies
        • Implicit dependencies
      • Platform-specific code
  • Troubleshooting
  • Profiling
    • Profiling with Microsoft Developer Studio 6
• Ghostscript C Coding Guidelines
  • C language do’s and don’ts
    • Preprocessor
      • Conditionals
      • Macros
    • Other
    • Lexical elements
    • Scoping (extern, static, …)
    • Scalars
    • Arrays
    • Typedefs
    • Structures
    • Unions
    • Expressions
    • Statements
    • Procedures
    • Standard library
  • Language extensions
    • Scoping
    • Scalar types
  • Stylistic conventions
    • Formatting
      • Indentation
      • Spaces
      • Parentheses
    • Preprocessor
      • Conditionals
      • Macros
    • Comments
    • Naming
    • Types
      • Pointers
    • Procedures
      • Miscellany
        • Local variables
    • Compiler warnings
  • File structuring
    • All files
    • Makefiles
    • General C code
    • Headers (.h files)
    • Source (.c files)
  • Ghostscript conventions
    • Specific names
      • code
      • status
    • Structure type descriptors
    • “Objects”
      • Classes
      • Procedures
      • Subclassing
    • Error handling
• Ghostscript PostScript Coding Guidelines
  • Summary of the coding guidelines
  • Use of PostScript language features
    • Restrictions
    • Protection
    • Standard constructions
      • Multi-way conditionals
      • Switches
    • File structuring
  • Commenting
  • Formatting
    • Indentation
    • Spaces
  • Naming
  • Miscellany
    • Some useful non-standard operators
    • Some useful procedures
    • Other
• Convert PostScript to Encapsulated PostScript Interchange Format
  • Overview
  • Usage
    • MS-DOS
    • Unix
  • Limitations
  • Files
• PostScript Files Distributed with Ghostscript
  • Generally used system files
    • gs_*_e.ps
      • PostScript Encodings
      • PDF Encodings
      • Non-standard Encodings
      • Pseudo-encodings
    • Other files
  • Configuration files
  • More obscure system files
  • PDF-specific system files
  • Display PostScript-specific system files
  • Art and examples
  • Utilities
  • Development tools
  • Odds and ends
• Fonts and Font Facilities Supplied with Ghostscript
  • About Ghostscript fonts
  • Ghostscript’s free fonts
  • How Ghostscript gets fonts when it runs
  • Adding your own fonts
    • Converting BDF fonts
  • For developers only
    • Contents of fonts
    • Font names and unique IDs
    • Running Ghostscript with third-party font renderers
• Setting Up a Unix lpr Filter for Ghostscript
  • What it can do
  • Setting it up
    • Editing the device list DEVICES
      • Field 1: bits per pixel
      • Field 2: colours
      • Field 3: dual queues
      • Example definition of DEVICES
    • Editing the filter list
    • Editing the printer port and type
    • Modifying printcap.insert
    • Single or dual queues
• News
• Guide to Ghostscript Source Code
  • Conceptual overview
  • PostScript interpreter
  • PDF interpreter
  • Graphics library
    • Device drivers
    • Platform-specific code
  • Makefiles
• Third Party Libraries Used by Ghostscript and GhostPDL
• Unsupported devices
  • H-P 8xx, 1100, and 1600 color inkjet printers
    • Drivers contained in gdevcd8.c
    • Further documentation
  • H-P 812, 815, 832, 880, 882, 895, and 970 color inkjet printers
    • Drivers contained in gdevcd8.c
    • Further documentation
  • H-P color inkjet printers
    • Drivers contained in gdevcdj.c
    • Default paper size
    • DeskJet physical limits
      • Printer properties (command-line parameters)
      • Bits per pixel
      • DeskJet properties
      • PaintJet XL300 / PaintJet XL properties
    • Gamma correction
    • HP’s resolution-enhanced mode for Inkjet printers
    • General tips
  • Canon BJC-8200 printer
    • Introduction
    • The uniprint control files for the BJC-8200
    • Further Optimization for the Canon BJC-8200
    • Outlook
    • Usage on RedHat Linux
  • Other Canon BubbleJet (BJC) printers
    • History
    • Configuring and building the BJC drivers
      • CMYK-to-RGB color conversion
      • Vertical centering of the printable area
      • Page margins
      • Makefile and compilation
    • Use of the drivers
      • Supported Options and Defaults
      • Device information
      • Hardware margins
      • PostScript printer description (PPD) files
      • Customizing the PPD files
    • How to report problems
    • Acknowledgements
  • Epson Stylus color printer (see also uniprint)
    • Usage
    • Options
    • Application note and FAQ
      • Support for A3 paper
      • Margins, PageSize
      • Stylus Color II / IIs and 1500
    • Recommendations
      • Color dithering experiments with gdevstc 1.21
    • Color transformation
    • ColorAdjustMatrix
    • RGB / CMYK coding and transfer, and BitsPerPixel
    • What is weaving?
    • Print mode parameters
      • Unidirectional
      • Microweave, noWeave and OutputCode=deltarow
      • Model
    • Bugs and pitfalls
    • Tests
    • Acknowledgments
  • uniprint, a flexible unified printer driver
    • The state of this driver
    • Notes on uniprint’s background
    • Godzilla’s guide to the creation of Unified Printer Parameter (.upp) files
    • All parameters in brief
    • uniprint’s Roll of Honor
    • Uniprint weaving parameters HowTo
      • Example: stc.upp from Aladdin Ghostscript 6.01
    • Extension to uniprint for the Epson Stylus Color 300
      • Example 1 - Epson Stylus Color 300 - 360 dpi colour
      • Example 2 - Epson Stylus Color 300 - 180 dpi black only
      • Example 3 - Epson Stylus Color 300 - 360 dpi black only

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