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Ken Moffat de109d9372 Update to ghostscript-9.00
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
%general-entities;
<!-- <!ENTITY gs-download-http "&sourceforge-repo;/ghostscript/ghostscript-&gs-version;.tar.bz2"> -->
<!ENTITY gs-download-http "http://ghostscript.com/releases/ghostscript-&gs-version;.tar.gz">
<!-- no response 2010-12-18
<!ENTITY gs-download-ftp "ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/GPL/gs900/ghostscript-&gs-version;.tar.gz"> -->
<!ENTITY gs-download-ftp " ">
<!ENTITY gs-md5sum "177c33b796ed28d3d568e230a6dbdba5">
<!ENTITY gs-size "22.3 MB">
<!ENTITY gs-buildsize "170 MB (includes installing libgs.so and both font tarballs)">
<!ENTITY gs-time "2.7 SBU (includes building and installing libgs.so)">
<!-- <!ENTITY gs-standard-fonts-download "ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/delegates/ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz"> -->
<!ENTITY gs-standard-fonts-download "&sourceforge-repo;/gs-fonts/ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz">
<!ENTITY gs-standard-fonts-md5sum "6865682b095f8c4500c54b285ff05ef6">
<!ENTITY gs-standard-fonts-size "3.7 MB">
<!ENTITY gs-other-fonts-download "&sourceforge-repo;/gs-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-other-6.0.tar.gz">
<!ENTITY gs-other-fonts-md5sum "33457d3f37de7ef03d2eea05a9e6aa4f">
<!ENTITY gs-other-fonts-size "796 KB">
]>
<sect1 id="gs" xreflabel="GPL Ghostscript-&gs-version;">
<?dbhtml filename="gs.html"?>
<sect1info>
<othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
<date>$Date$</date>
</sect1info>
<title>GPL Ghostscript-&gs-version;</title>
<indexterm zone="gs">
<primary sortas="a-GPL-Ghostscript">GPL Ghostscript</primary>
</indexterm>
<sect2 role="package">
<title>Introduction to Ghostscript</title>
<para><application>Ghostscript</application> is a versatile processor
for PostScript data with the ability to render PostScript to different
targets.</para>
&lfs67_checked;
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
<listitem>
<para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&gs-download-http;"/></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&gs-download-ftp;"/></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Download MD5 sum: &gs-md5sum;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Download size: &gs-size;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Estimated disk space required: &gs-buildsize;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Estimated build time: &gs-time;</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
<title>Standard Fonts</title>
<listitem>
<para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&gs-standard-fonts-download;"/></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Download MD5 sum: &gs-standard-fonts-md5sum;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Download size: &gs-standard-fonts-size;</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
<title>Other Fonts</title>
<listitem>
<para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&gs-other-fonts-download;"/></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Download MD5 sum: &gs-other-fonts-md5sum;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Download size: &gs-other-fonts-size;</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
<title>Patches</title>
<listitem>
<para>Required patch: <ulink
url="&patch-root;/ghostscript-&gs-version;-security_fixes-1.patch"/>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Recommended patch (unless you build without JPEG2000 support) : <ulink
url="&patch-root;/ghostscript-&gs-version;-system_jasper-1.patch"/>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Ghostscript Dependencies</bridgehead>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
<para role="optional"><xref linkend="expat"/>,
<xref linkend="freetype2"/>,
<xref linkend="jasper"/>
<xref linkend="libjpeg"/>,
<xref linkend="libpng"/>,
<xref linkend="libtiff"/>, and
<xref linkend="lcms"/></para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
<para role="optional">
<xref linkend="cairo"/>,
<xref linkend="fontconfig"/>,
<xref linkend="gtk2"/>,
<xref linkend="cups"/>,
<xref linkend="x-window-system"/>, and
<!-- the link for ijs source ultimately takes users back to the ghostscript site
<ulink url="http://www.linuxprinting.org/ijs/">IJS</ulink>, and -->
<ulink url="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libpaper">libpaper</ulink></para>
<para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
<ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/gs"/></para>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Ghostscript</title>
<para>Install <application>GPL Ghostscript</application> by running the
following commands:</para>
<note>
<para>The <application>Ghostscript</application> build system is not
user-friendly. In order to use system copies of various graphics
libraries, you must do it using unconventional methods.</para>
</note>
<para>Begin by patching some vulnerabilities:</para>
<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../ghostscript-&gs-version;-security_fixes-1.patch
</userinput></screen>
<para><application>GPL Ghostscript</application> includes (old) copies of
several libraries. Some of these seem to have been patched to fix known
vulnerabilities, but others of these copies are less-well maintained.
To ensure that any future fixes are applied throughout the whole system,
it is recommended that you build the released versions of these libraries
and then configure <application>GPL Ghostscript</application> to link to
them. This configuration has several steps.</para>
<para>Unless you intend to build <application>GPL Ghostscript</application>
without support for <literal>JPEG2000</literal> files, apply a patch to
allow it to build against a current system-installed version of
<application>JasPer</application>:</para>
<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../ghostscript-&gs-version;-system_jasper-1.patch
</userinput></screen>
<para>Remove the local copies of <application>expat</application>,
<application>JasPer</application>, <application>lcms</application>,
<application>libjpeg</application>, <application>libpng</application>,
<application>libtiff</application>, and <application>zlib</application>:
</para>
<screen><userinput>rm -rf expat jasper lcms jpeg libpng tiff zlib
</userinput></screen>
<para>Run the configure command:</para>
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-dynamic --with-drivers=ALL,x11 --with-system-libtiff --disable-compile-inits</userinput></screen>
<para>To ensure the build is able to use the system versions of
<application>expat</application>, <application>freetype</application>, and
<application>lcms</application> it is necessary to make some changes and an
addition to the <literal>Makefile</literal> before building the package:</para>
<screen><userinput>sed -i -e 's|SHARE_LCMS=0|SHARE_LCMS=1|' \
-e 's|LCMSSRCDIR=lcms|LCMSSRCDIR=/usr|' \
-e 's|=imdi|&amp;\n\n# Use system expat library\n\nSHARE_EXPAT=1|' \
-e 's|SHARE_FT=0|SHARE_FT=1|' Makefile &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>
<para>This package does not come with a test suite. However, you may test
the operation of the newly built <command>gs</command> program by
issuing the following command (issue from an X Windows terminal):</para>
<screen><userinput>bin/gs -Ilib -dBATCH examples/tiger.eps</userinput></screen>
<para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
<!-- for 9.00 docdir is only referenced by GS_DOCDIR which is itself not referenced
so the docs still go into /usr/share/ghostscript/9.00/
<screen role="root"><userinput>make install docdir=/usr/share/doc/ghostscript-&gs-version; &amp;&amp;-->
<screen role="root"><userinput>make install &amp;&amp;
for INSTFILE in `ls doc`
do
<!--if [ ! -f /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-&gs-version;/$INSTFILE ]; then -->
if [ ! -f /usr/share/ghostscript/&gs-version;/doc/$INSTFILE ]; then
install -v -m644 doc/$INSTFILE \
/usr/share/ghostscript/&gs-version;/doc
<!--/usr/share/doc/ghostscript-&gs-version;-->
fi
done &amp;&amp;
<!--install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-&gs-version;/figures &amp;&amp;-->
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/ghostscript/&gs-version;/doc/figures &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644 doc/figures/* \
/usr/share/ghostscript/&gs-version;/doc/figures &amp;&amp;
<!--/usr/share/doc/ghostscript-&gs-version;/figures-->
ln -sv ../ghostscript/&gs-version;/doc /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-&gs-version;
</userinput></screen>
<para>To install the shared library
<filename class='libraryfile'>libgs.so</filename>, run the
following additional command as an unprivileged user:</para>
<screen><userinput>make so</userinput></screen>
<para>And again as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
user:</para>
<screen role="root"><userinput>make soinstall docdir=/usr/share/doc/ghostscript-&gs-version; &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644 base/*.h /usr/include/ghostscript &amp;&amp;
ln -v -s ghostscript /usr/include/ps</userinput></screen>
<note>
<para>The shared library depends on <xref linkend="gtk2"/>. It is
only used in external programs like <xref linkend="gsview"/> and
<xref linkend="imagemagick"/>.</para>
</note>
<para>To finish the installation, unpack all fonts you've downloaded to
<filename class="directory">/usr/share/ghostscript</filename> and ensure
the ownerships of the files are
<systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>:<systemitem
class="groupname">root</systemitem>. Substitute
<replaceable>&lt;font-tarball&gt;</replaceable> appropriately in
the command below for the fonts you wish to install:</para>
<screen role="root"><userinput>tar -xvf ../<replaceable>&lt;font-tarball&gt;</replaceable> \
-C /usr/share/ghostscript --no-same-owner</userinput></screen>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="commands">
<title>Command Explanations</title>
<para><command>--with-drivers=ALL,x11</command>: This parameter adds the
<literal>x11</literal> output device to the default (<literal>ALL</literal>)
selection so that the test to render the tiger will work on 32-bit systems
(this does no harm on the <literal>x86_64</literal> architecture, although
it is not required there).</para>
<para><command>--disable-compile-inits</command>: This parameter is intended
to avoid compiling initialization files into the executables. It is used here
to simplify building agaisnt the system version of
<application>zlib</application>.</para>
<para><option>--without-jasper</option>: If you know you do not wish to print
any <literal>JPEG2000</literal> files, this switch (and removing the
<filename class="directory">jasper/</filename> source) will achieve this.</para>
<para><option>--without-jbig2dec</option>: The <literal>JBIG2</literal>
decompression code (used for some faxes) can be disabled by using this switch
and removing the <filename class="directory">jbig2dec/</filename> source.</para>
<para><command>install ...</command>: Some packages
(<application>ImageMagick</application> is one) need the
<application>Ghostscript</application> interface headers in place to link
to the shared library. These commands install the headers.</para>
<para><command>ln -sv ... /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-&gs-version;</command>: This puts
the documentation where it is expected to be found.</para>
<para><command>ln -v -s ghostscript /usr/include/ps</command>: Some
packages expect to find the interface headers in an alternate
location.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="content">
<title>Contents</title>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
<segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
<segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
<seg>bdftops, dumphint, dvipdf, eps2eps, fixmswrd.pl, font2c, gs, gsbj,
gsc (from soinstall), gsdj, gsdj500, gslj, gslp, gsnd, gsx (from soinstall),
lprsetup.sh, pdf2dsc, pdf2ps, pdfopt,
pf2afm, pfbtopfa, printafm, ps2ascii, ps2epsi, ps2pdf, ps2pdf12,
ps2pdf13, ps2pdf14, ps2pdfwr, ps2ps, ps2ps2, pv.sh, unix-lpr.sh, and
wftopfa</seg>
<seg>libgs.so </seg>
<seg>/usr/include/ghostscript, /usr/lib/ghostscript, /usr/share/ghostscript,
<!--and /usr/share/doc/ghostscript</seg>-->
and /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-&gs-version;</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
<variablelist>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
<?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
<varlistentry id="gplgs-prog">
<term><command>gs</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>is an interpreter for Adobe Systems' PostScript(tm) and Portable Document Format
(PDF).</para>
<indexterm zone="gs gplgs-prog">
<primary sortas="b-gs">gs</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libgs.so">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">libgs.so</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>provides <application>Ghostscript</application> functionality
to other programs, such as <application>GSView</application>,
<application>ImageMagick</application>, and
<application>libspectre</application>.</para>
<indexterm zone="gs libgs.so">
<primary sortas="c-libgs.so">libgs.so</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para><application>GPL Ghostscript</application> provides many different
scripts used to convert PostScript, PDF, and other formats. Please refer to
the HTML documentation or the man pages for information about the
capabilities provided.</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>