Defines Decoding and CIDDecoding resource categories and related procsets.
Used for for emulating PostScript fonts with non-PostScript font technologies.
PostScript portion of the basic color space handling;
see the extensive comment at the head of the file
for information. Note that color space substitution
and the hue-saturation-brightness (HSB) color space
are now fully implemented in the PostScript code;
the interpreter and the graphic library are no longer
involved in or even aware of these features.
Implementation of the traditional (non-dictionary)
form of the image and imagemask operators, and the
colorimage operator (including the Next alphaimage
facility).
Ghostscript reads this automatically when it starts up. It contains
definitions of many standard procedures and initialization for a wide
variety of things.
gs_init.ps reads this in if the Ghostscript interpreter
includes Level 2 PostScript functions. It contains definitions of
procedures and miscellaneous initialization for the Level 2 functions.
gs_init.ps reads this in. It creates a dummy
statusdict and some other environmental odds and ends for
the benefit of PostScript files that really want to be printed on a
LaserWriter.
Convert a PostScript Type 0 or Type 1 font to C code that can be compiled
and linked into Ghostscript; see the documentation on fonts for how to do this.
This file implements the %disk IODevice
(diskn.dev feature). See the the language documentation
for information on the use of the %disk# devices. These PostScript
modifications primarily perform the searching of all Searchable file
systems in a defined SearchOrder when a file reference does not contain
an explicit %device% specifier (such as %os% or
%disk0%). This is required to emulate undocumented
behaviour of Adobe PostScript printers that have a disk and was
experimentally determined.
Support for
ICC color profiles. These are not a standard PostScript feature, but
are used in the PDF interpreter, as ICC profiles may be embedded in
PDF files.
Display PostScript-specific system files
These files are found in the lib subdirectory of
the Ghostscript source distribution.
gs_init.ps reads these in if the dps
feature is included in the configuration. They provide support for various
Display PostScript and Level 2 features.
Art and examples
These files are found in the examples subdirectory of
the Ghostscript source distribution.
A colored version of a hexagonally symmetric Escher drawing of
interlocking butterflies. Can be printed on monochrome devices, with
somewhat less dramatic results.
The RIDT '91 logo. Note that since this is an EPS file, you will have
to add "-c showpage" at the end of the command line to
print it or convert it to a raster file.
Prints text in a variety of different sizes, to help evaluate the
quality of text rendering.
Utilities
For more information on these utility programs, see the comments at the
beginnings of the files. The ones marked (*) have batch files or shell
scripts of the same name (like bdftops and
bdftops.bat) to invoke them conveniently.
These files are found in the lib subdirectory of
the Ghostscript source distribution.
A file that you can put in front of your own files to make Ghostscript
(or a PostScript printer) produce an informative error page if something
goes wrong during the processing of your file(s).
A file that you can concatenate in front of (very well-behaved)
PostScript files to do N-up printing. It is deliberately simple and naive:
for more generality, use psnup (which, however, requires DSC
comments).
A utility for converting an arbitrary PostScript file into a form
compatible with Adobe Illustrator. NOTE: ps2ai doesn't
work properly with Adobe's Helvetica-Oblique font, and other fonts whose
original FontMatrix involves skewing or rotation.
A file that installs the StochasticDefault halftone as the default,
which may improve output quality on inkjet printers. See the file for more
information.
A utility for printing (to stdout) linearized PDF hint tables in
an easy to read form. Scripts
dumphint and
dumphint.bat
are provided for the user's convenience.
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