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diff --git a/doc/Install.htm b/doc/Install.htm deleted file mode 100644 index 8a63c019..00000000 --- a/doc/Install.htm +++ /dev/null @@ -1,419 +0,0 @@ -<!doctype html> -<html lang="en"> -<head> - <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> - <meta name="viewport" content="user-scalable=yes, initial-scale=1, width=device-width"> - <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Source+Sans+Pro:200,200i,300,300i,400,400i,600,600i,700,700i,900,900i" rel="stylesheet"> - <link rel="shortcut icon" href="images/favicon.svg"> - <title>How to Install Ghostscript</title> - <link href="default.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> -</head> - -<body> - <header><div class="title"><a href="index.html"><h1 aria-label="title">Ghostscript documentation</h1><h2 aria-label="version"></h2></a></div><a href="Search.htm" aria-label="Search" id="searchSite"><div class="search"></div></a></header> - <main> - <article> - <div class="outer"> - - <div class="inner"> -<!--START EDITING HERE--> - -<h1>How to Install Ghostscript</h1> - -<h2><a name="toc"></a>Table of contents</h2> -<ul class="toc"> - - <li><a href="#Overview">Overview of how to install Ghostscript</a></li> - <li><a href="#Install_Unix">Installing Ghostscript on Unix</a></li> - <li> - <ul> - <li><a href="#Shared_object">Ghostscript as a shared object</a></li> - <li><a href="#Install_Linux">Additional notes on Linux</a></li> - </ul> - </li> - <li><a href="#Install_Windows">Installing Ghostscript on MS Windows</a></li> - <li><a href="#Install_VMS">Installing Ghostscript on OpenVMS</a></li> -</ul> - -<!-- [1.2 end table of contents] =========================================== --> - -<!-- [1.3 begin hint] ====================================================== --> - -<p>For other information, see the <a href="Readme.htm">Ghostscript -overview</a> and "<a href="Make.htm">How to build Ghostscript from source - code</a>".</p> - -<!-- [1.3 end hint] ======================================================== --> - -<hr> - -<!-- [1.0 end visible header] ============================================== --> - -<!-- [2.0 begin contents] ================================================== --> - -<h2><a name="Overview"></a>Overview of how to install Ghostscript</h2> - -<p> - You must have three things to run Ghostscript:</p> -<ol> -<li>The Ghostscript executable file; on some operating -systems, more than one file is required. These are entirely -platform-specific. See below for details.</li> - -<li>Initialization files that Ghostscript reads in when it -starts up; these are the same on all platforms.</li> - -<li> -<ul> -<li><code>gs_</code>*<code>.ps</code> unless Ghostscript was compiled -using the "compiled initialization files" option. See the documentation of -<a href="Psfiles.htm">PostScript files distributed with Ghostscript</a>.</li> - -<li><code>pdf_</code>*<code>.ps</code> if Ghostscript was compiled -with the ability to interpret Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files, -that is, <code>pdf.dev</code> was included in -<code>FEATURE_DEVS</code> when Ghostscript was built.</li> - -<li><code>Fontmap</code> and <code>Fontmap.GS</code> (or the -appropriate <code>Fontmap.</code><em>xxx</em> for your platform), unless -you plan always to invoke Ghostscript with the <a -href="Use.htm#FONTMAP_switch"><code>-dNOFONTMAP</code> switch</a>.</li> -</ul> -</li> - -<li>Fonts, for rendering text. These are platform-independent, -but if you already have fonts of the right kind on your platform, -you may be able to use those. See below for details. Also see the -<a href="Fonts.htm">documentation on fonts</a>.</li> -</ol> - -<p> -The <a href="Use.htm">usage documentation</a> describes the search -algorithms used to find initialization files and font files. The -per-platform descriptions that follow tell you where to install these -files.</p> - -<hr> - -<h2><a name="Install_Unix"></a>Installing Ghostscript on Unix</h2> - -<p> -Ghostscript uses the common configure, build and install method common -to many modern software packages. In general the following with suffice - to build ghostscript:</p> -<blockquote><code> - ./configure<br> - make -</code></blockquote> -and then it may be installed in the default location with: -<blockquote><b> - <code>make install</code> -</b></blockquote> -<p>This last command may need to be performed with super user privileges.</p> - -<p> -You can set the installation directory by adding <code>--prefix=<em>path</em></code> -to the configure invocation in the first step. The default prefix is <code>/usr/local</code>, -which is to say the <tt>gs</tt> executable is installed as <code>/usr/local/bin/gs</code>.</p> - -<p>A list of similar configuration options is available via <code>./configure --help</code></p> - -<p> -For more detailed information on building Ghostscript see -<a href="Make.htm#Unix_build">how to build Ghostscript on Unix</a> in -the documentation on building Ghostscript, especially regarding information -on using the older <a href="Make.htm#UNIX_makefile">hand edited makefile</a> -approach. Whatever configuration method you use, execute "<code>make -install</code>" to install the executable and all the required and - ancillary files after the build is complete.</p> - -<h3><a name="Use_Acrobat_fonts_Unix"></a>Fonts</h3> - -<p> -The makefile installs all the files except fonts under the directory -defined in the makefile as <code>prefix</code>. Fonts need to be -installed separately. The fonts should be installed in -<code><em>{prefix}</em>/share/ghostscript/fonts</code>. -(That is, <code>/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/</code> if you used the default -configuration above.)</p> - -<p> -If you have Adobe Acrobat installed, you can use the Acrobat fonts -in place of the ones distributed with with Ghostscript by adding the -Acrobat fonts directory to -<code>GS_FONTPATH</code> and removing these fonts from - <code>Fontmap.GS</code>:</p> - -<blockquote> -Courier, Courier-Bold, Courier-BoldOblique, Courier-Oblique, Helvetica, -Helvetica-Bold, Helvetica-BoldOblique, Helvetica-Oblique, Symbol, Times-Bold, -Times-BoldItalic, Times-Italic, Times-Roman, ZapfDingbats -</blockquote> - -<p> -Similarly, you can have ghostscript use other fonts on your system by adding -entries to the fontmap or adding the directories to the GS_FONTMAP environment -variable. See the <a href="Use.htm#Font_lookup">usage documentation</a> for more -information.</p> -<p>For example, many linux distributions place fonts under <code>/usr/share/fonts</code>.</p> - -<h3><a name="Shared_object"></a>Ghostscript as a shared object</h3> -<p>If you've built Ghostscript as a shared object, instead of '<code>make install</code>', -you must use '<code>make soinstall</code>'. -See <a href="Make.htm#Shared_object">how to build Ghostscript -as a shared object</a> for more details.</p> - -<h3><a name="Install_Linux"></a>Additional notes on Linux</h3> - -<p> -For Linux, you may be able to install or upgrade Ghostscript from - precompiled <a href="http://www.rpm.org">RPM</a> files using:</p> - -<blockquote><code> -rpm -U ghostscript-N.NN-1.i386.rpm<br> -rpm -U ghostscript-fonts-N.NN-1.noarch.rpm -</code></blockquote> - -<p> -However, please note that we do not create RPMs for Ghostscript, and we take -no responsibility for RPMs created by others.</p> - -<hr> - -<h2><a name="Install_Windows"></a>Installing Ghostscript on MS Windows</h2> - -<p> -We usually distribute Ghostscript releases for Windows as a binary installer, - for the convenience of most users.</p> - -<h3><a name="Windows16"></a>Windows 3.1 (16-bit)</h3> -<p> - The last version to run on 16-bit Windows 3.1 was Ghostscript 4.03.</p> - -<h3><a name="Windows32"></a>Windows 95, 98, Me</h3> -<p> -The last version to be available as a binary for Windows 95/98/Me was 8.60. Although -building from source with Visual Studio 2003 should produce a working binary for those -versions.</p> - -<h3><a name="Windows32"></a>Windows NT4, 2000, XP, 2003 or Vista (32-bit)</h3> -<p> -The installer is normally named -<code>gs###w32.exe</code>, -where ### is the release number (e.g., 871 for Ghostscript 8.71, - 910 for Ghostscript 9.10).</p> - -<h3><a name="Windows64"></a>Windows XP x64 edition, 2003 or Vista (64-bit)</h3> -<p> -The x64 installer is normally named -<code>gs###w64.exe</code> -This is for 64-bit Windows operating systems based on the x64 instruction set. -Do not use this on 64-bit processors running 32-bit Windows.</p> - -<h3><a name="Windows4"></a>Installing</h3> -<p> - To install Ghostscript on Windows, you should run the installer executable.</p> - -<p>The installer is NSIS-based (see also <a href="Release.htm">Release.htm</a>) and -supports a few standard NSIS options: <code>/NCRC</code> disables the CRC check, -<code>/S</code> runs the installer or uninstaller silently, <code>/D</code> -sets the default installation directory (It must be the last parameter -used in the command line and must not contain any quotes, even if the path -contains spaces. Only absolute paths are supported).</p> - -<h3><a name="General_Windows"></a>General Windows configuration</h3> - -<p> -The installer includes files in these subdirectories:</p> - -<blockquote><code> -gs<em>#.##</em>\bin -<br>gs<em>#.##</em>\examples -<br>gs<em>#.##</em>\lib -<br>gs<em>#.##</em>\doc -<br>gs<em>#.##</em>\Resource -<br>fonts -</code></blockquote> - -<p> -The actual executable files for the 32-bit Windows install, in the <code>gs<em>#.##</em>\bin</code> -subdirectory, are:</p> - -<blockquote><table> -<tr><td><code>GSWIN32C.EXE</code></td> - - <td>Ghostscript as a 32-bit Windows command line program. - This is usually the preferred executable.</td></tr> -<tr><td><code>GSWIN32.EXE</code></td> - - <td>32-bit Ghostscript using its own window for commands</td></tr> -<tr><td><code>GSDLL32.DLL</code></td> - - <td>32-bit dynamic link library containing most of Ghostscript's functionality</td></tr> -</table></blockquote> - -<p> -For the 64-bit Windows install, also in the <code>gs<em>#.##</em>\bin</code> - subdirectory, they are:</p> - -<blockquote><table> -<tr><td><code>GSWIN64C.EXE</code></td> - - <td>Ghostscript as a 64-bit Windows command line program. - This is usually the preferred executable.</td></tr> -<tr><td><code>GSWIN64.EXE</code></td> - - <td>64-bit Ghostscript using its own window for commands</td></tr> -<tr><td><code>GSDLL64.DLL</code></td> - - <td>64-bit dynamic link library containing most of Ghostscript's functionality</td></tr> -</table></blockquote> - -<p> -For printer devices, the default output is the default printer. This can be modified as follows:</p> - -<blockquote> -<dl> -<dt><code>-sOutputFile="%printer%printer name"</code> -<dd>Output to the named printer. If your printer is named "HP DeskJet 500" - then you would use <code>-sOutputFile="%printer%HP DeskJet 500"</code>.</dd></dt> - -</dl> -</blockquote> - -<p> -If Ghostscript fails to find an environment variable, it looks for a -registry value of the same name under the key</p> - -<blockquote><code> -HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GPL Ghostscript\#.## -</code></blockquote> - -<p> - or if that fails, under the key</p> - -<blockquote><code> -HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\GPL Ghostscript\#.## -</code></blockquote> - -<p> -where #.## is the Ghostscript version number.</p> - -<p> -Ghostscript will attempt to load the Ghostscript dynamic link library <code>GSDLL32.DLL</code> in the following order:</p> -<ul> -<li> In the same directory as the Ghostscript executable.</li> -<li> If the environment variable <code>GS_DLL</code> is defined, -Ghostscript tries to load the Ghostscript dynamic link library (DLL) -with the name given.</li> -<li> Using the standard Windows library search method: the directory -from which the application loaded, the current directory, the Windows -system directory, the Windows directory and the directories listed in -the PATH environment variable.</li> -</ul> - -<p> -The Ghostscript installer will create registry values -for the environment variables <code>GS_LIB</code> - and <code>GS_DLL</code>.</p> - -<h3><a name="Uninstall_Windows"></a>Uninstalling Ghostscript on Windows</h3> - -<p> -To uninstall Ghostscript, use the Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs and -remove "Ghostscript #.##" and "Ghostscript Fonts". (The entries may be -called "GPL Ghostscript" or "AFPL Ghostscript", rather than just -"Ghostscript", depending on what version of Ghostscript was installed). -Alternatively, an uninstall shortcut is also available in the Start Menu -group.</p> -<hr> - -<h2><a name="Install_VMS"></a>Installing Ghostscript on OpenVMS</h2> - -<p> -Support for OpenVMS has stagnated (and almost certainly bit-rotted), and -as the core development team has no access to an OpenVMS environment, we -are unable to bring it up to date. We will consider patches from contributors -if any wish to take on the task of getting it working again. Given the -very limited appeal of OpenVMS these days, however, we are unlikely to consider -patches with invasive code changes.</p> - -<p> -You need the file <code>GS.EXE</code> to run Ghostscript on OpenVMS, and -installing Ghostscript on an OpenVMS system requires building it first: -please read <a href="Make.htm#VMS_build">how to build Ghostscript on VMS</a> -in the documentation on building Ghostscript.</p> - -<p> -The following installation steps assume that the Ghostscript directory is -<code>DISK1:[DIR.GHOSTSCRIPT]</code>. Yours will almost certainly be in -a different location so adjust the following commands accordingly.</p> - -<ul> - -<li>Download the fonts and unpack them into -<code>DISK1:[DIR.GHOSTSCRIPT.LIB]</code>.</li> - -<li>Enable access to the program and support files for all users with: - -<blockquote><pre> -$ set file/prot=w:re DISK1:[DIR]GHOSTSCRIPT.dir -$ set file/prot=w:re DISK1:[DIR.GHOSTSCRIPT...]*.* -</pre></blockquote> -</li> -<li>Optionally, add the Ghostscript help instructions to your system wide -help file: - -<blockquote><pre> -$ lib/help sys$help:HELPLIB.HLB DISK1:[DIR.GHOSTSCRIPT.DOC]GS-VMS.HLP -</pre></blockquote> -</li> - -<li>Lastly, add the following lines to the appropriate system wide or user -specific login script. - -<blockquote><pre> -$ define gs_exe DISK1:[DIR.GHOSTSCRIPT.BIN] -$ define gs_lib DISK1:[DIR.GHOSTSCRIPT.EXE] -$ gs :== $gs_exe:gs.exe -</pre></blockquote> -</li> - -</ul> - -<p> -If you have DECWindows/Motif installed, you may wish to replace the -<code>FONTMAP.GS</code> file with <code>FONTMAP.VMS</code>. 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