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What Is Ghostscript?

The #1 PDL conversion tool available today. The modular graphics library, proprietary color management system, advanced screening technology, and our new adaptive acceleration library make Ghostscript the most flexible and robust print/conversion/rendering solution available. Trust Ghostscript to deliver consistently accurate color and extraordinary print quality.

Who Uses Ghostscript?

Integrations range from host-based, embedded, SaaS/cloud solutions. The Ghostscript engine has been used in printers, MFPs, RIPs, document management systems, PDF tools, and cloud-based printing.

Ghostscript Software - Input and output formats supported by Ghostscript.
Ghostscript Software - The Ghostscript graphics library.
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Reviews of Ghostscript

Average score

Overall
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
5.0

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5
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Henning
Henning
CEO in Germany
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Impressive Feature-Set and Flexibility! Highly recommended

5.0 3 years ago

Comments: Within our research driven open projects, Ghostscript is known as a high-performance solution allowing a common understanding and a common way to handle documents across multiple development environments and across multiple operating systems. We can highly recommend the use of Ghostscript in document driven scenarios for achiving high-quality output.

Pros:

We have noticed Ghostscript as a very handy and flexible tool for handling PDF challenges today and we have been impressed by Ghostscripts feature set and flexibility. As a de-facto standard, Ghostscript provides help in handling PDF based documents which shortens the development cycle, and which also ensures a high compatibility of the output documents. The dual license model allows the use of Ghostscript in many scenarios.

Cons:

No cons - we very satisfied with the over-all service and product.