Roaming Computing System (Windows Edition) 3 - Ghostscript
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Ghostcript is required by Scribus, it is important for EPS and PS import and printing.
"Artifex Software has switched to a release every 6 months (Feb and Aug) and all releases are simultaneous GPL and Artifex releases".
GNU Ghostscript 8.63
| Variant | GPL Ghostscript; 32bit (w32) (Scrbus documentation recommends gswin32c.exe rather than gswin32.exe but we don't know where to get that from) |
| Version | 8.63 |
| Purpose | Displays, prints and converts PostScript and PDF files |
| Required for | Scribus |
| Installed to | workstation |
| WPKG package.xml example page | |
| Install format | |
| Installation Instructions | |
| Release Notes | |
| Changelog | 8.63 includes fonts (in the ghostscript dll) that were previously installed separately, so we remove those old fonts when we upgrade to or install 8.63 or later |
| Download | www.ghostscript.com |
| Silent Installation and uninstallation | Installation: I think we now achieve silence by simply specifying an installation target directory on the command-line, like this: '%SOFTWARE%\ghostscript\setupgs.exe "%PROGRAMFILES%\gs"' Uninstallation: uninstgs "%PROGRAMFILES%\gs\gs8.63\uninstal.txt" -q |
| Configuration | |
| Issues |
GNU Ghostscript 8.61
| Variant | GPL Ghostscript; 32bit (w32) |
| Version | 8.61 |
| Purpose | Displays, prints and converts PostScript and PDF files |
| Required for | Scribus |
| Installed to | workstation |
| WPKG package.xml example page | |
| Install format | |
| Installation Instructions | |
| Release Notes | |
| Download | www.ghostscript.com |
| Silent Installation and uninstallation | I think we now achieve this by simply specifying an installation target directory on the command-line, like this: '%SOFTWARE%\ghostscript\setupgs.exe "%PROGRAMFILES%\gs"' |
| Configuration | |
| Issues |
GNU Ghostscript 8.56
| Variant | GNU Ghostscript; 32bit (w32) |
| Version | 8.56 |
| Purpose | Displays, prints and converts PostScript and PDF files |
| Required for | Scribus |
| Installed to | workstation |
| WPKG package.xml example page | |
| Install format | |
| Installation Instructions | |
| Release Notes | |
| Silent Installation and uninstallation | We haven't found a way install and uninstall it silently. There's talk of /VERYSILENT, /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES, /NORESTART and /NOCANCEL but they don't work. |
| Configuration | |
| Issues |
AFPL Ghostscript 8.54
| Variant | AFPL Ghostscript; 32bit |
| Version | 8.54 |
| Purpose | Displays, prints and converts PostScript and PDF files |
| Required for | Scribus |
| Installed to | workstation |
| WPKG package.xml example page | http://wpkg.org/index.php/Ghostscript |
| Install format | |
| Installation Instructions | |
| Release Notes | |
| Silent Installation and uninstallation | We haven't found a way install and uninstall it silently. There's talk of /VERYSILENT, /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES, /NORESTART and /NOCANCEL but they don't work. |
| Configuration | |
| Issues |