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