print/ghostscript-gnu/pkg-descr


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This is Aladdin Ghostscript, the non-GPL version that comes with a licence
different from the GPL. Read the file PUBLIC in the work/gsX.Y directory or
in ${PREFIX}/share/ghostscript/X.Y/doc/PUBLIC after installation for details !

Ghostscript is the well-known PostScript interpreter which is available for
all common and most esoteric platforms and supports many different printers
and some displays.

Official ghostscript homepage, see:
    http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html

This FreeBSD port includes two useful add-on packages:
    o Support for HP DeskJet 670, 690, 850, 855, 870, 890, 1100 and 1600,
      see announcement on
         http://www.erdw.ethz.ch/~bonk/hp850/hp850.html
    o Support for pdfencrypt, see description on
        http://www.ozemail.com.au/~geoffk/pdfencrypt/
        
Thomas Merz has written a Ghostscript manual in PDF format:
    http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/merz.html

The manual is also available in German language, see:
    http://www.muc.de/~tm/free/free.html

WWW: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html