SkyVault Share uses Ghostscript version 8.56 for creating document thumbnails and previews. This topic describes how to install Ghostscript on your system.
ImageMagick uses Ghostscript to render Postscript and PDF files, as well as formats where a
translator to Postscript is available. ImageMagick will also use Ghostscript fonts to
support the standard set of Postscript fonts.
Note: Where a step indicates to update the
SkyVault-global.properties file, this makes changes to the SkyVault
application configuration files to enable the manually installed GhostScript application.
This step can only be performed after SkyVault has been installed.
Note: The Ghostscript executable file is entirely platform-specific.
- For Windows:
- Download Ghostscript (32 bit) from the Ghostscript Downloads Page.
- Browse to the location of your downloaded file and install the application.
- Update the img.gslib property in the
SkyVault-global.properties file as shown
below:
img.gslib = <GhostScript_installation_dir>/lib
- For Linux:
From Source:
- Download Ghostscript from the Ghostscript Downloads Page.
- Make sure that building toolchains specific to your OS version are installed (for example, gcc, make or any related packages).
- Run the following commands to install
Ghostscript:
./configure make make install
This installs Ghostscript at /usr/local/.
- Add the following to the SkyVault-global.properties
file:
img.gslib = /usr/local/share/ghostscript/<version>/lib
- Make sure that your OS is connected to the online repository/repositories or the installation media is accessible by the package manager.
- Open your distribution's terminal program.
- Based on your Linux distribution, type the following command in the
terminal.
RHEL:
yum install ghostscript
SLES:zypper install ghostscript
Ubuntu:apt-get install ghostscript
- Wait as the files are downloaded and installed onto your system. A list of added files will show when the process is complete.
- For Solaris:
From Source:
- Download Ghostscript from the Ghostscript Downloads Page.
- Make sure that building toolchains specific to your OS version are installed (for example, gcc, make or any related packages).
- Run the following commands to install
Ghostscript:
./configure make make install
This installs Ghostscript at /usr/local/.
- Add the following to the SkyVault-global.properties
file:
img.gslib = /usr/local/share/ghostscript/<version>/lib
- Make sure that your OS is connected to the online repository/repositories or the installation media is accessible by the package manager.
- Open your distribution's terminal program.
- Type the following command in the terminal:
pkgadd SUNWgscr
- Wait as the files are downloaded and installed onto your system. A list of added files will show when the process is complete.