GNU Astronomy Utilities manual

3.2.2 GPL Ghostscript

GPL Ghostscript’s executable (gs) is called used by ConvertType to compile a PDF file from a source PostScript file, see ConvertType. Therefore its headers (and libraries) are not needed. With a very high probability you already have it in your GNU/Linux distribution. Unfortunately it does not follow the standard GNU build style so installing it is very hard. It is best to rely on your distribution’s package managers for this.

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GNU Astronomy Utilities manual, May 2016.