CODEWITHSUNDEEP
ubuntughostscript
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Reputation: 5631

Build ghostscript from source in Ubuntu 12.04

I have installed ghostscript package version 9.05 from repository, but that version overlaps text in some PDF conversions. Tested locally with version 9.06 and all seems ok.

I'm converting PDF files to jpg.

Now what i want to know is that when i compile and install ghostscript from source (9.10 version) do i need also copy some fonts to some directory? I have installed GS from source before but then i had some issues with fonts..

I have read this page, but didn't help me at all: http://ghostscript.com/doc/7.07/Make.htm#Unix_build

If i'm right the repository version handles all of these default font stuff automatically..

Is it possible to just replace package version gs -file with manually compiled version (rename and copy over) so all other settings like default fonts remains as they are from package (repository) version. Without uninstalling the package version..

Any other good, quality programs for command line patch converting PDF pages to JPG/PNG? Tested already imagemagic too but it's 10 times slower than GS.

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 887

Answers (1)

KenS
KenS

Reputation: 31159

If you get the entire Ghostscript source tree and build it using configure, it should all work perfectly well. Its unlikely that a self-compiled version will have the same settings as a packaged version, but anything which relies on environment will be unaffected by replacing the packaged version.

I'd suggest that you simply try it, if you have problems you can use IRC (irc.freenode.net, the #ghostscript channel) to talk to the developers.

Upvotes: 1

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