ghostscript

Install command:
brew install ghostscript

Also known as: gs

Interpreter for PostScript and PDF

https://www.ghostscript.com/

License: AGPL-3.0-or-later

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/ghostscript.json

Formula code: ghostscript.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon
tahoe
sequoia
sonoma
macOS on
Intel
sonoma
Linux ARM64
x86_64

Current versions:

stable 10.07.1
head ⚡️ HEAD

Depends on:

fontconfig 2.18.3 XML-based font configuration API for X Windows
freetype 2.14.3 Software library to render fonts
jbig2dec 0.20 JBIG2 decoder and library (for monochrome documents)
jpeg-turbo 3.2.0 JPEG image codec that aids compression and decompression
leptonica 1.87.0 Image processing and image analysis library
libarchive 3.8.9 Multi-format archive and compression library
libidn 1.44 International domain name library
libpng 1.6.58 Library for manipulating PNG images
libtiff 4.7.2 TIFF library and utilities
little-cms2 2.19.1 Color management engine supporting ICC profiles
openjpeg 2.5.4 Library for JPEG-2000 image manipulation
tesseract 5.5.3 OCR (Optical Character Recognition) engine

Depends on when building from source:

pkgconf 3.0.6 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit

Uses from macOS: expat

Conflicts with: gambit-scheme (because both install `gsc` binary), gerbil-scheme (because both install `gsc` binary)

Binaries: dvipdf, eps2eps, gpcl6, gpcl6c, gpdlc, gs, gsbj, gsc, gsdj, gsdj500, gslj, gslp, gsnd, gsx, gxps, gxpsc, lprsetup.sh, pdf2dsc, pdf2ps, pf2afm, pfbtopfa, pphs, printafm, ps2ascii, ps2epsi, ps2pdf, ps2pdf12, ps2pdf13, ps2pdf14, ps2pdfwr, ps2ps, ps2ps2, unix-lpr.sh

Ghostscript is now built `--without-versioned-path`. Temporary backwards
compatibility symlinks exist but will be removed with 10.07.0 release.

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Build Errors3