Ghost4J binds the Ghostscript C API to bring Ghostscript power to the Java world. It also provides a high-level API to handle PDF and Postscript documents with objects.

Maven configuration

<dependencies>

    ...

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.ghost4j</groupId>
        <artifactId>ghost4j</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.0</version>
    </dependency>

    ...

</dependencies>

If you want to use an older release (before 1.0.0), add the following repositories as well:

<repositories>

    ...

    <repository>
        <id>org.ghost4j.repository.releases</id>
        <name>Ghost4J releases</name>
        <url>http://repo.ghost4j.org/maven2/releases</url>
    </repository>
    <repository>
        <id>org.ghost4j.repository.snapshots</id>
        <name>Ghost4J snapshots</name>
        <url>http://repo.ghost4j.org/maven2/snapshots</url>
    </repository>

    ...

</repositories>

A simple example (PS to PDF conversion)

//load PostScript document
PSDocument document = new PSDocument();
document.load(new File("input.ps"));

//create OutputStream
fos = new FileOutputStream(new File("rendition.pdf"));

//create converter
PDFConverter converter = new PDFConverter();

//set options
converter.setPDFSettings(PDFConverter.OPTION_PDFSETTINGS_PREPRESS);

//convert
converter.convert(document, fos);

Getting binaries

Binary distributions can be downloaded from here

Documentation

Documentation is available from http://www.ghost4j.org