ghostscript-bin 1.1.0

Ghostscript (gs) binary distribution

ghostscript-bin

Ghostscript (gs) binary distribution for Python. Install via pip, get a working gs command.

pip install ghostscript-bin

Usage

Command line

gs --version
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -o output.pdf input.ps

Python API

import ghostscript_bin

# Path to the bundled gs binary
ghostscript_bin.gs_path()

# Version string
ghostscript_bin.version()

# Run gs with arguments (wraps subprocess.run)
ghostscript_bin.run(["-sDEVICE=pdfwrite", "-o", "output.pdf", "input.ps"])

Included devices

pdfwrite, ps2write, eps2write, bbox, txtwrite, inkcov, png (all variants), jpeg, tiff (all variants), pbm/pgm/pnm/ppm (all variants), and nullpage.

How it works

The package builds Ghostscript from source using scikit-build-core and CMake's ExternalProject. The binary is compiled with COMPILE_INITS=1 (the default), which embeds all Resource, Init, Font, CMap, and ICC files directly into the binary. This means the installed package is a single self-contained gs executable with no external dependencies beyond system libc.

Platforms

Pre-built wheels are available for:

• Linux x86_64 (manylinux)
• Linux aarch64 (manylinux)
• macOS arm64

License

AGPL-3.0-or-later (same as Ghostscript itself). See LICENSE.