%%name: GNU ghostscript  

%%short-description: Interpreter for the Postscript and PDF graphics languages.
 
%%full-description: An interpreter for the Postscript language and the
Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), a set of C procedures (the
Ghostscript lib) that implements the graphics capabilities that
appear as primitive operations in the Postscript language and in PDF,
and a set of utility porgrams that inlcude the ability to convert
PostSAcript to PDF. Currently it supports PostScript level 2 and PDF
versions 1.0 through 1.2.

%%category: printing, graphics

%%license: GPL

%%maintainer: ghost@aladdin.com

%%interface: Command line, interactive, library

%%updated: 14 Mar 2000

%%keywords: Postscript, PDF, graphics, Ghostview

%%programs: 

%%GNU: yes

%%web-page: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gnu/

%%support:

%%doc: English reference manual available on line at http://www.pdflib.com/gsmanual/index.html; German reference manual available on line at http://www.pdflib.com/gsmanual/index.html; user introduction available from http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gnu/doc550/New-user.htm; developers' guide to Ghostscript source code available at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gnu/doc550/Source.htm.

%%developers: L. Peter Deutsch

%%contributors: Russell Lang, Thomas Merz, Tim Theisen, and many others

%%sponsors:

%%source: ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/pub/ghost/gnu

%%debian:

%%redhat: http://rpmfind.net/RPM/ghostscript/html

%%repository:

%%related: Fontutils, Ghostview, GSview, a2ps, GNU Enscript

%%source-language:

%%supported-languages:

%%use-requirements:

%%build-prerequisites:

%%weak-prerequisites: libjpeg, libpng, zlib

%%source-prerequisites:

%%version: 5.50 released 25 Feb 2000

%%announce-list: 

%%announce-news: 

%%help-list:

%%help-news: gnu.ghostscript.bug

%%dev-list: bug-ghostscript@gnu.org 

%%dev-news:

%%bug-list: bug-ghostscript@gnu.org



