The Ghostscript family of interpreters
offers native rendering of all major page
description languages. In addition to rendering
to raster, Ghostscript offers the capability
of high-level conversion through our High-level
Output API. Here are some of the features
of this module:
Ghostscript high-level conversion capabilities
include the following:
Input formats: PostScript (all), PDF,
PCL, and XPS
Output formats: PostScript Level 1, PostScript
Level 2, PDF, PDF/A, PDF/X, and XPS (planned)
The Ghostscript high-level output API provides
pathways to retain the object-level information.
As a result when converting from one format
to another, in order to keep the file small
and to have searchable/linkable text, Ghostscript
retains these objects whenever possible.
For example, when PostScript is converted
to PDF, fonts and text are retained and
are searchable in the resulting PDF file.
In addition vector graphics are retained
as well. The resulting PDF file is small,
with searchable and linkable text.
Ghostscript can be used for the following
conversions:
