diff --git a/wiki/linux/ghostscript.md b/wiki/linux/ghostscript.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b7fc013 --- /dev/null +++ b/wiki/linux/ghostscript.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +# Ghostscript + +[Ghostscript](https://ghostscript.com) is a program used to convert, compress and render different +formats like PDF, PostScript and more. + +## Setup + +The Ghostscript program can be installed on most [Linux](/wiki/linux.md) distributions and +[package managers](/wiki/linux/package_manager.md) via a package called `ghostscript`. + +## Usage + +This section addresses the usage of Ghostscript. + +### Compressing a PDF File + +A PDF file can be compressed using Ghostscript by running the following command. +`` and `` are the paths to the input and output PDF files. + +```sh +gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile= +```