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Artifex's GhostPDF™ software is technology for manipulation and rasterization of PDF documents, developed by Artifex Software, purveyors of Ghostscript® and GhostPCL™ the fine, popular and complete software solutions for handling and conversion of Page Description Language documents.

This page documents the next-generation version of the GhostPDF software. This new release will be an entirely new codebase written from the ground up to take maximum advantage of modern computer architectures.

Feature highlights:

This new version of the GhostPDF software is under development, but snapshots of this exciting new product are available for trial. Try one of the binaries below for a demonstration of the speed and quality this new product will offer.

Windows binary    ghostpdf-win32-0.1.zip    1.4 MB
source    ghostpdf-0.1.tar.gz    457 KB
Firefox plugin    available for Windows   
Development    dailies are also available   

The snapshot includes the following example applications:

Note that these are a technology demonstration and not full-featured applications.

Because integration and code quality are important to our OEM customers, the source code is also available for review and evaluation under the AFPL license, which allows source modification in kind but not commercial distribution.

The lastest development source is available directly from the repository. If you don't find the web access convenient you can use the Free darcs version control software to check out the latest version from the link above. You will also need the Jam build tool to compile the source.

While this exciting new version is under development we cannot recommend it for production work. For a stable alternative, we refer you to our mature releases based on the Ghostscript family of products.