Ghostscript is the name of a set of software that provides:

* an interpreter for the PostScriptTM language and the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF -- sometimes confused with Acrobat, Adobe's PDF browser and editor product), and * The Ghostscript library, a set of procedures to implement the graphics and filtering capabilities that are primitive operations in the PostScript language and in PDF.

In simple terms, this means that Ghostscript can read a PostScript or PDF file and display the results on the screen or convert them into a form you can print on a non-PostScript printer. Especially together with several popular previewers, with Ghostscript you can view or

Requer:

ld-linux.so.2 (glibc), libICE.so.6 (XFree86-libs), libSM.so.6 (XFree86-libs), libX11.so.6 (XFree86-libs), libXext.so.6 (XFree86-libs), libXt.so.6 (XFree86-libs), libc.so.6 (glibc), libm.so.6 (glibc), libpng.so.2 (libpng), libvga.so.1 (svgalib), libz.so.1 (zlib), /bin/sh (bash), libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) (glibc), libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) (glibc), libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) (glibc), libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) (glibc)