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I am having some trouble running EasyABC from https://github.com/aupfred/EasyABC2 . I get a #ghostscript cannot be found error but I have it. Just not the right version. `brew install [email protected]` does not work... #python

I am having some trouble running EasyABC from https://github.com/aupfred/EasyABC2 . I get a #ghostscript cannot be found error but I have it. Just not the right version. `brew install [email protected]` does not work... #python

In case anyone else is having problems viewing their annual statement from Nest Pensions in Preview.app on MacOS, I managed to fix mine with Ghostscript:

gs \
-sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
-dNOPAUSE \
-dBATCH \
-o repaired.pdf \
broken.pdf

#NestPensions #pdf #MacOS #PreviewApp #ghostscript

In case anyone else is having problems viewing their annual statement from Nest Pensions in Preview.app on MacOS, I managed to fix mine with Ghostscript:

gs \
-sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
-dNOPAUSE \
-dBATCH \
-o repaired.pdf \
broken.pdf

#NestPensions #pdf #MacOS #PreviewApp #ghostscript

New Version: Artifex #Ghostscript 10.07.1 (stable;x86-64) #GS https://ghostscript.com/releases/gsdnld.html

New Version: Artifex #Ghostscript 10.07.1 (stable;x86) #GS https://ghostscript.com/releases/gsdnld.html

Artifex Software released #Ghostscript version 10.07.1. https://www.ghostscript.com/releases/gsdnld.html

Artifex Software released #Ghostscript version 10.07.1. https://www.ghostscript.com/releases/gsdnld.html

“Secure #redaction by design and through extensive #testing”

#Censor 0.6.0 comes with many more #security improvements, motivated by extensive testing on more then 1,000 #PDF document samples. You may now redact securely also links, form fields and widgets. In rare cases, when partial image redaction fails, the more secure full image removal is used instead.

But even more important, Censor now warns you, when unsuccessful redaction is detected during postprocessing. This reduces the impact of known issues of unsecure redaction.

Polish is the 11th language you may speak with Censor. Thanks to its translators (among them, @mondstern)!

Thanks a lot also to #pypdf, #qpdf, #pikepdf, #Ghostscript, #MuPDF, #PyMuPDF, and #poppler contributors for the great resource of PDF document samples!

Find it at @flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/page.codeberg.censor.Censor and @Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/censor/Censor

#Censorship #Codeberg #Flathub #GNOME #Linux #Python

“Secure #redaction by design and through extensive #testing”

#Censor 0.6.0 comes with many more #security improvements, motivated by extensive testing on more then 1,000 #PDF document samples. You may now redact securely also links, form fields and widgets. In rare cases, when partial image redaction fails, the more secure full image removal is used instead.

But even more important, Censor now warns you, when unsuccessful redaction is detected during postprocessing. This reduces the impact of known issues of unsecure redaction.

Polish is the 11th language you may speak with Censor. Thanks to its translators (among them, @mondstern)!

Thanks a lot also to #pypdf, #qpdf, #pikepdf, #Ghostscript, #MuPDF, #PyMuPDF, and #poppler contributors for the great resource of PDF document samples!

Find it at @flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/page.codeberg.censor.Censor and @Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/censor/Censor

#Censorship #Codeberg #Flathub #GNOME #Linux #Python

New Version: Artifex #Ghostscript 10.07.0 (stable;x86-64) #GS https://ghostscript.com/releases/gsdnld.html

New Version: Artifex #Ghostscript 10.07.0 (stable;x86) #GS https://ghostscript.com/releases/gsdnld.html

Artifex Software released #Ghostscript version 10.07.0. https://www.ghostscript.com/releases/gsdnld.html

Artifex Software released #Ghostscript version 10.07.0. https://www.ghostscript.com/releases/gsdnld.html

That said and celebrated ;), there are things that #Censor is not yet well redacting.

The upstream library #MuPDF (with its #Python bindings in #PyMuPDF) supports by default only redaction of text, vector graphics and images. Testing on a variety of PDF files (thanks to #pypdf, #qpdf, #ghostscript, and their issue reporters, as well as @pdfarranger for their hint) let me discover that some vector graphics are not properly redacted and an upstream issue has been reported for that.

Also, form fields (widgets), signatures and links may be incompletely redacted.

You can find an updated list of “What is redacted? What not?” here: https://codeberg.org/censor/Censor/issues/120

#pdf #redaction #security

That said and celebrated ;), there are things that #Censor is not yet well redacting.

The upstream library #MuPDF (with its #Python bindings in #PyMuPDF) supports by default only redaction of text, vector graphics and images. Testing on a variety of PDF files (thanks to #pypdf, #qpdf, #ghostscript, and their issue reporters, as well as @pdfarranger for their hint) let me discover that some vector graphics are not properly redacted and an upstream issue has been reported for that.

Also, form fields (widgets), signatures and links may be incompletely redacted.

You can find an updated list of “What is redacted? What not?” here: https://codeberg.org/censor/Censor/issues/120

#pdf #redaction #security

'ere you go:

https://jan.krutisch.de/en/2026/01/26/using-ghostscript-on-ubuntu.html

#Ghostscript #Ubuntu #Apparmor #ZUGFeRD

'ere you go:

https://jan.krutisch.de/en/2026/01/26/using-ghostscript-on-ubuntu.html

#Ghostscript #Ubuntu #Apparmor #ZUGFeRD

I fixed my issue. This is incredibly dumb. Ubuntu's Apparmor restricted the file extensions ghostscript was able to read. And, lo and behold, both XML and ICC (Color profiles) were not in that list.

This MUST be a bug, now where to report it to?

I learned a thing or two about postscript and ghostscript on the way. Not sure I needed that but here we are.

I'll turn this into a quick blog post.

#Ubuntu #Ghostscript #ZUGFeRD

I fixed my issue. This is incredibly dumb. Ubuntu's Apparmor restricted the file extensions ghostscript was able to read. And, lo and behold, both XML and ICC (Color profiles) were not in that list.

This MUST be a bug, now where to report it to?

I learned a thing or two about postscript and ghostscript on the way. Not sure I needed that but here we are.

I'll turn this into a quick blog post.

#Ubuntu #Ghostscript #ZUGFeRD

@gborn Ich würde mich freuen, in weiteren Teilen des Beitrags würde nicht nur #Fakturama beleuchtet. Die von mir lizenzierte Fachsoftware (leider unter Windows) erzeugt mittlerweile #XRechnung•en (noch nicht fehlerfrei). Ich hätte gern etwas (ein Skript?), das aus dem PDF/A und der XML ein #ZUGFeRD-PDF macht. Gibt's das? Geht das mit #Ghostscript? Würde es jemand für kleines Geld schreiben?

@gborn Ich würde mich freuen, in weiteren Teilen des Beitrags würde nicht nur #Fakturama beleuchtet. Die von mir lizenzierte Fachsoftware (leider unter Windows) erzeugt mittlerweile #XRechnung•en (noch nicht fehlerfrei). Ich hätte gern etwas (ein Skript?), das aus dem PDF/A und der XML ein #ZUGFeRD-PDF macht. Gibt's das? Geht das mit #Ghostscript? Würde es jemand für kleines Geld schreiben?

Learn how to convert man pages to PDF using man -t and ps2pdf. Complete guide with commands for Linux, BSD, and macOS.

Read the full guide here: https://ostechnix.com/print-export-man-pages-pdf-linux-unix/

#Manualpages #manpage #pdf #ps2pdf #Ghostscript #Postscript #mandoc #Linux #Unix #Bsd #Macos #Linuxcommands #Linuxbasics #Linuxhowto #Sysadmin #Linuxadmin

Learn how to convert man pages to PDF using man -t and ps2pdf. Complete guide with commands for Linux, BSD, and macOS.

Read the full guide here: https://ostechnix.com/print-export-man-pages-pdf-linux-unix/

#Manualpages #manpage #pdf #ps2pdf #Ghostscript #Postscript #mandoc #Linux #Unix #Bsd #Macos #Linuxcommands #Linuxbasics #Linuxhowto #Sysadmin #Linuxadmin

#Ghostscript について調べている

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostscript

#Ghostscript について調べている

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostscript

With the push to rewrite existing unix tools in Rust... A rust-based Ghostscript alternative would be nice.

The stream of pointer/memory management security vulnerabilities in Ghostscript seems to not be lessening over the years.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ghostscript/+changelog

#rust #ghostscript #security

Eine gute Einführung in die Optimierungsmöglichkeiten für PDF-Dateien mit #Ghostscript. Ganz wichtig ist der Hinweis, dass manche Programme in ihre PDFs große Blobs schreiben (z.B. #Illustrator). In meinem Fall habe ich gerade ein geliefertes #PDF um 97 Prozent verkleinert.
https://ghostscript.com/blog/optimizing-pdfs.html

New Version: Artifex #Ghostscript 10.06.0 (stable;x86-64) #GS https://ghostscript.com/releases/gsdnld.html

New Version: Artifex #Ghostscript 10.06.0 (stable;x86) #GS https://ghostscript.com/releases/gsdnld.html

Artifex Software released #Ghostscript version 10.06.0. https://www.ghostscript.com/releases/gsdnld.html

Artifex Software released #Ghostscript version 10.06.0. https://www.ghostscript.com/releases/gsdnld.html

Back on social media again (touching grass was nice) ... I usually do prepress on macOS, but when I'm on Linux I end up using #Inkscape (Scribus UX is not the best).

So I decided to make a simple GUI over Ghostscript 👻 . It will create prepress-ready PDF/X from any PDF. Note! If you want total control over CMYK/spot colors use Scribus, but if your demands are simple (RGB=>CMYK) it might work for you...

https://github.com/rodlie/cyanpdf

#cmyk #prepress #pdf #pdfx #linux #ghostscript #libregraphics

Back on social media again (touching grass was nice) ... I usually do prepress on macOS, but when I'm on Linux I end up using #Inkscape (Scribus UX is not the best).

So I decided to make a simple GUI over Ghostscript 👻 . It will create prepress-ready PDF/X from any PDF. Note! If you want total control over CMYK/spot colors use Scribus, but if your demands are simple (RGB=>CMYK) it might work for you...

https://github.com/rodlie/cyanpdf

#cmyk #prepress #pdf #pdfx #linux #ghostscript #libregraphics

When you've had enough of automating every little thing and just want to get stuff done and end up manually generating a bunch of (very slow to generate) PDF plots, then concatenate all of them with #ghostScript, then extract the text with #pdf2txt, use a regex in Python to find some numbers and dates in the plot's legend, to finally write them into a csv file.

🫠

It's not stupid if it works, right? 😅

#PhDLife

When you've had enough of automating every little thing and just want to get stuff done and end up manually generating a bunch of (very slow to generate) PDF plots, then concatenate all of them with #ghostScript, then extract the text with #pdf2txt, use a regex in Python to find some numbers and dates in the plot's legend, to finally write them into a csv file.

🫠

It's not stupid if it works, right? 😅

#PhDLife

CVE-2025-48708: #ghostscript can embed plaintext #password in encrypted #PDFs 😶

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/23/2

CVE-2025-48708: #ghostscript can embed plaintext #password in encrypted #PDFs 😶

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/23/2

Mit Postscript ein PDF-Formular erstellen

Mit Postscript können auch in ein bestehendes PDF Formularfelder eingefügt werden.

#Postscript #PDF_Formular #Ghostscript #Linux

https://gnulinux.ch/mit-postscript-ein-pdf-formular-erstellen

Mit Postscript ein PDF-Formular erstellen

Mit Postscript können auch in ein bestehendes PDF Formularfelder eingefügt werden.

#Postscript #PDF_Formular #Ghostscript #Linux

https://gnulinux.ch/mit-postscript-ein-pdf-formular-erstellen

Zeichnen mit Postscript – Teil 2

Eine einfache Zeichnung mit Postscript erstellen.

#Postscript #Ghostscript #Zeichnen #Linux

https://gnulinux.ch/zeichnen-mit-postscript-teil-2

Zeichnen mit Postscript – Teil 2

Eine einfache Zeichnung mit Postscript erstellen.

#Postscript #Ghostscript #Zeichnen #Linux

https://gnulinux.ch/zeichnen-mit-postscript-teil-2

Zeichnen mit Postscript

Eine einfache Zeichnung mit wenig Postscript-Code erstellen.

#Postscript #Ghostscript #Linux

https://gnulinux.ch/zeichnen-mit-postscript

Zeichnen mit Postscript

Eine einfache Zeichnung mit wenig Postscript-Code erstellen.

#Postscript #Ghostscript #Linux

https://gnulinux.ch/zeichnen-mit-postscript

❯ ps ax | grep -w gs
3083637 ?        R     17:04 gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -dCompatibilityLevel=1.6 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dAutoRotatePages=/None -sColorConversionStrategy=RGB -dPDFSTOPONERROR -dAutoFilterColorImages=true -dAutoFilterGrayImages=true -dJPEGQ=95 -dPDFA=2 -dPDFACompatibilityPolicy=1 -o /tmp/ocrmypdf.io.p9tlge8m/pdfa.pdf -sstdout=%stderr /tmp/ocrmypdf.io.p9tlge8m/pdfa.ps /tmp/ocrmypdf.io.p9tlge8m/fix_docinfo.pdf

❯ ps ax | grep -w gs
3083637 ?        R     17:04 gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -dCompatibilityLevel=1.6 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dAutoRotatePages=/None -sColorConversionStrategy=RGB -dPDFSTOPONERROR -dAutoFilterColorImages=true -dAutoFilterGrayImages=true -dJPEGQ=95 -dPDFA=2 -dPDFACompatibilityPolicy=1 -o /tmp/ocrmypdf.io.p9tlge8m/pdfa.pdf -sstdout=%stderr /tmp/ocrmypdf.io.p9tlge8m/pdfa.ps /tmp/ocrmypdf.io.p9tlge8m/fix_docinfo.pdf

New Version: Artifex #Ghostscript 10.05.1 (stable;x86-64) #GS https://ghostscript.com/releases/gsdnld.html

New Version: Artifex #Ghostscript 10.05.1 (stable;x86) #GS https://ghostscript.com/releases/gsdnld.html

#Ghostscript 10.05.1 has been released (#PostScript / #PDF / #XPS / #PCL / #PCL5 / #PCL6 / #PXL / #GhostPDL / #GhostPCL / #GhostXPS) https://ghostscript.com/

#Ghostscript 10.05.1 has been released (#PostScript / #PDF / #XPS / #PCL / #PCL5 / #PCL6 / #PXL / #GhostPDL / #GhostPCL / #GhostXPS) https://ghostscript.com/

Artifex Software released #Ghostscript version 10.05.1. https://www.ghostscript.com/releases/gsdnld.html

4chan Restored After Hackers Exploited Years of Neglected Tech Debt

#CyberSecurity #4chan #DataBreach #Hacked #Outage #TechDebt #Ghostscript #Moderator #Privacy #InfoSec #SoyjakParty #SecurityVulnerabilities

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/04/27/4chan-restored-after-hackers-exploited-years-of-neglected-tech-debt-xcxwbn/

4chan Breach Exposes Moderator Emails, Passwords via Outdated Software

#4chan #hack #databreach #cybersecurity #Ghostscript #PHP #FreeBSD #emaileak #SoyjakParty #infosec #vulnerabilities #Hackers

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/04/20/4chan-breach-exposes-moderator-emails-passwords-via-outdated-software-xcxwbn/

4chan z problemami czyli o ataku na popularny imageboard

Internet pełen jest portali społecznościowych czy forów. O tych bardziej popularnych, chociaż owianych złą sławą, ze względu szerokie spektrum dopuszczalnych treści, należy 4chan. Portal założony pod koniec 2003 roku stał się sławny za sprawą działań swoich anonimowych użytkowników oraz kontrowersyjnych memów. 4chan zasłynął z różnych akcji, takich jak namierzanie flagi...

#WBiegu #4Chan #Atak #Deface #FreeBSD #Ghostscript #Memy #Websec

https://sekurak.pl/4chan-z-problemami-czyli-o-ataku-na-popularny-imageboard/

Sicherheitsupdate: Ghostscript über mehrere Sicherheitslücken attackierbar | heise online
https://heise.de/-10329715 #Ghostscript #Sicherheitslücken

EDIT: SOLVED - my fault entirely - not a problem with update.
I now know more than I ever wanted to about apache error logs.
Thanks to those who offered suggestions or boosted.
Now back to teaching myself PHP - without so may errors! 🤦‍♀️
====================

Looking for help from linux mint gurus - an update ate my disk!

I just allowed update manager to update ghostscript and now I'm getting a warning that I have 0 space left in my root file system.
My /bin directory seems to contain recursive X11 folders. I'm not sure how many because I'm worried about messing with it in case I cause more problems.

I'd appreciate simple suggestions about the best way to solve this. I'm ok with using synaptic and even the terminal (if I really have to). But if you're going to ask me to delete random file please explain why.
I've been using Linux for years but I don't consider myself an expert.

I'm running Linux mint 21.3 cinnamon on an AMD Athlon with a 500GB HDD.

#Linux #linuxmint #ghostscript

Sicherheitslücken im PDF/Postscript-Interpreter Ghostscript

In dem besonders unter Linux/Unix verbreiteten Interpreter Ghostscript zum Umgang mit PDF- und PostScript-Dateien befindet sich einige Schwachstellen, die von Angreifer genutzt werden können, um Schadcode auszuführen. https://kantel.github.io/posts/2025032701_ghostscript/ #Ghostscript #Security