What is the Display Ghostscript System?
The Display Ghostscript System is functionally upward-compatible with Adobe Display PostScript, but it has been written independently. The Display Ghostscript System provides a device-independent imaging model for displaying information on a screen. The imaging model uses the PostScript language which has powerful graphics capabilities and frees the programmer from display-specific details like screen resolution and color issues. The Display Ghostscript System is composed of a PostScript language interpreter (Ghostscript), the Client library, and the pswrap translator. The Display Ghostscript System uses a client/server architecture. Applications are linked with the Client library which communicates with the PostScript interpreter residing in the server. The application utilizes the procedures and data structures in the Client library which are independent of the actual PostScript interpreter. The pswrap translator allows you to take custom PostScript language programs and wrap them wi
