Part of the Printers glossary:

Ghostscript is a program for UNIX systems that interprets a PostScript file (which is a file formatted for a PostScript printer) so that, using a related program, Ghostview, you can view it on a display screen.

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This was last updated in May 2010
Posted by: Margaret Rouse

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