Questions tagged [ghostscript]
Ghostscript is a utility used for PostScript/PDF preview and printing.
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Remove Adobe protection from PDF
When I open a PDF it prompts for a username and password. If I open it with any other program than Adobe it says only Adobe can open this PDF. I am not a fan of being limited to Adobe and we have ...
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Build Ghostscript 10 on Ubuntu 22.04
In official repositories of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS there is a Ghostscript 9.55. I'm trying to build latest Ghostscript 10 from sources. It's working but…
a) when I type 'sudo checkinstall' it creates a deb ...
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How do I remove password from a PDF using ghostscript, when password is known?
I have an encrypted pdf, and I am aware of the password, and I would like to use the Ghostscript to make them unencrypted, so they don't require any password to be opened.
I tried using the following, ...
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How do I fix error "gs" ignored when using ghostcript for reducing pdf file size?
I am trying to reduce the filesize of a pdf using ghostscript. I found the command here: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/18987/how-to-make-the-pdfs-produced-by-pdflatex-smaller
gs -sDEVICE=...
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Show input filename within output filename — after ghostscript command
I use this script (from here) in order to reduce the size of a pdf file:
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook \ -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input....
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CUPS: `stopped "Filter failed"' when trying to print after ubuntu update
D [15/Apr/2021:02:45:21 -0500] [Job 21] PID 20964 (/usr/lib/cups/backend/socket) exited with no errors.
D [15/Apr/2021:02:45:21 -0500] [Job 21] Start rendering...
D [15/Apr/2021:02:45:21 -0500] [Job ...
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How to specify the title of the PDF file GS produces?
I'm using this
gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dAutoRotatePages=/None -sOutputFile=finished.pdf file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf
to concatenate 3 PDF files, and gs inexplicably takes the ...
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Install Ubuntu Patch to solve CVE
Can someone please help me on how to install the following patch to solve a CVE?
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ghostscript/9.22~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1
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Errors converting PDF with Imagemagick on Ubuntu 18
On Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS on Azure with a Bitnami WordPress stack, I'm trying to get Imagemagick and Ghostscript working so WordPress will create PDF thumbnails. A simple conversion test gives an error. ...
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My printer adds a blue background [closed]
I'm running Ubuntu 18.04LTS. I have an HP Photosmart C7280 color printer. The printer is attached over the local network. This has worked nicely for me for a long time.
But today, suddenly, ...
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How can I merge PDF files without duplicating fonts?
I need to merge about a 100 PDF files into one where each file uses more or less the same unsubsetted fonts. All the options I have tried so far (pdfunite, gs, etc.) are not intelligent about font ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 inverted colors in PDF print after reinstalling libgs9-common package
After upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04, CUPS would no longer print PDFs. I checked /var/log/cups/error.log and discovered these error messages:
/base/gsicc_manage.c:1244: gsicc_open_search(): Could not find ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 with OKI C301dn
The driver seems to have problems converting to PostScript.
Any ideas?
From error_log:
D [23/Oct/2018:22:25:52 +0200] [Job 309] Started filter pstops (PID 24589)
D [23/Oct/2018:22:25:52 +0200] [Job ...
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ghostscript in Ubuntu 18.04 [closed]
I am experiencing lots of issues with postscript files since I upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04. I cannot visualize them with gv, evince, or other similar programs. I cannot parse them into ImageMagick. Here ...
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How to install newer version of ghostscript on server than provided from ubuntu?
I need to upgrade my ghostscript version from 9.22 to 9.25 on my server. I am running a laravel forge droplet on digital ocean.
I have tried the following:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ...
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Render LaTeX is not working in Inkscape after installing to 18.04
I have recently installed Ubuntu 18.04 (Not upgrade, a clean install). In Ubuntu 18.04, the rendering LaTeX function in Inkscape is not working. Following is the error output:
*** WARNING - the ...
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Arial font with Ghostview
After upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04 from Ubuntu 17.10, I am unable to view some encapsulated postscript images (EPS) that use Arial font.
I can view some images with with Arial font, but not all. I'm ...
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gs: /MATLAB/ /bin/glnxa64/libtiff.so.5: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libgs.so.9)
When I use in Matlab
!epstopdf "output.eps" --outfile=output.pdf
then I get one of the following message:
gs: /opt/MATLAB/R2016b/bin/glnxa64/libtiff.so.5: no version information available (...
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Broken ghostscript configuration
Something has gone awry with my ghostscript configuration, whereby I get the following errors when, for example, using epstopdf
./base/gsicc_manage.c:1088: gsicc_open_search(): Could not find ...
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How can I install a pdf font?
I am trying to save a matplotlib plot as a pdf page as shown in this example. Everything is fine until tex fonts are used. That is, I can display plots that use tex fonts, but not save them as a pdf. ...
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ImageMagick, Ghostscript and PDFs
I have a problem with ImageMagick and Ghostscript converting PDF to JPG. Sometimes I get the dreaded
convert multipage.pdf multipage.jpg
convert: no images defined `multipage.jpg' @ error/convert....
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Opening a .PS from command line
I want to open a .PS (postscript file) having produced it from a .csh script running a series of GMT commands preferably using ghostview. I am trying:
gv plot.ps
This however opens ghostview but not ...
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Adding a logo in a pdf by Ghostscript
I am trying to add a logo in a pdf by Ghostscript. Currently, I am adding a text with the use of this Postscript .ps file:
<<
/EndPage
{
2 eq { pop false }
{
gsave ...
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Ghostscript output to file with ESC-P sequences
For a project (printing nanofluids with an Epson printer) I want to see the the code that the computer sends to the printer. I am running Ubuntu 16.04 and have an Epson Stylus SX600FW printer.
Using ...
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Convert pdf to monochrome black-and-white via command line
I have a 65-page PDF file that has text in a dark grey. (Actual text, not a picture/image of text.) Printing on my B/W printer, the text gets all blurry, because the printer is trying to make it less ...
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Update Ghostscript on Ubuntu 14.04
First of all, I am well aware of this question: What's the easiest way to upgrade Ghostscript?.
Unfortunately none of the answers worked. I can find deb files from this list. There, I am ...
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Problem with accents when using ImageMagick or Ghostscript to convert PDF to Image
I am having a problem when converting PDF to Images using ImageMagick or Ghostscript. All accented characters disappear from the converted image. I found a couple of people having the same problem and ...
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KLatexFormula fails to show any formula
I have freshly installed KLatexFormula under a 14.04 LTS ubuntu. It starts fine, but it does not convert any formula I type. instead it opens an error window with the following text:
gs reported an ...
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embedding external fonts into pdf-file
the acroreader is showing missing fonts in one pdf-file (WPMathB,WPMathA
WP Greek Helve, ...) which can be easily downloaded from http://www.fontpalace.com.
However, the ghostscript command fails, ...
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How can I extract pages containing a given string from a PDF file?
I have a PDF file containing 100 pages. I would like to extract those pages containing a particular string.
How can I achieve this? Maybe by using ghostscript on the command line?
For what it's ...
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how do i write EPS and postScript programs? [closed]
I am trying to write EPS scripts.
%!
100 100 moveto
/Symbol 12 selectfont (p ) show
/Times-Roman 12 selectfont (is less than 4) show
I suspect that beginning the script with %! is not correct, or ...
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How to find ghostscript files in ubuntu?
I'm working with the terminal and im trying to find ghostscript files in all the computer. How can I do that? I know that I must use the comand "find", but is there anything else I should type?
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Ubuntu 12.10 : error installing Canon UFR2 Drivers
I tried to install the drivers for my Canon MF4150 that I successfully used under my previous 10.04 instance.
But when I run the command to install .deb packages, it gives me an error complaining that ...
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How to reduce the size of a pdf file?
I'm looking for a way in Ubuntu to reduce the size of a pdf (by reducing the quality of the images).
I know that this can be done in Ghostscript by typing the following command in terminal:
gs -...
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How to make a simple ubuntu GUI application from shell script code?
I want this shell script convert to a GUI ubuntu application
Any one please help me to make a Ubuntu application. This shell script is used to download Hindu news paper.
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What's the easiest way to upgrade Ghostscript?
I have version 8 of Ghostscript on my Ubuntu 10.04 server.
What is the easiest way to install version 9? Source install? PPA? Something else?
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Is there a recommended PPA for Ghostscript 9 on 10.04?
Recently we keep receiving PDFs that hang Ghostscript at 100% CPU when printed. Since at the office we are still on Lucid, I tried printing those same PDFs from a Precise VM as a test, and they work ...
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Free URW postscript fonts versus TrueType
Ubuntu includes the free commercial URW++ postscript fonts in /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts (from the gsfonts package).
I've seen that the full set are also available in TrueType format (including ...
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Can I upgrade ghostscript from source on 10.04 over existing gs version 8.71? [closed]
I would like to upgrade to a newer version of ghostscript (latest is 9.05, but anything in the 9.x series). Can I build and install from source over the top of the existing install?
I had a dry-run ...
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How do I combine multiple pdf files to an a4 papersize output?
currently I am using
gs -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite sOutputFile=combined.pdf input1.pdf input2.pdf input3.pdf
for combining my pdf files, however I have noticed, that ...
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How to install older version of GhostScript?
This is second time I get segmentation fault error when I try to run GhostScript on any PDF file with pdfwrite
First time it was my previous Ubuntu 11.04 distro, which afterwards I completely remove (...
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How to Upgrade Ghost Script to the latest version?
I have default ghostscript version 8.71 installed in my Ubuntu Machine i would like to update it to the latest version
I download the file from http://downloads.ghostscript.com/public/ghostpdl-9.01....
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How Do I Export Pages from Browser with Embedded Hyperlinks?
Made a sad discovery today. I have Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. My client is in the ad business and she had a marketing competition task for me. She wanted me to visit websites of the competitors, and export the ...
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Reduce filesize of a scanned PDF [duplicate]
I've got a PDF of a scanned document that's around 20MB and I need to drastically reduce the filesize to be able to email it. I've tried
gs -sDevice=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/...