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===Conversions=== Ghostscript is a substitution for PCL printers to work as if they were PostScript. Ghostscript, Foomatic and other printer suites act as filters on LPR. On CUPS, many of these filters plus Gutenprint are able to provide needed PPD's (Postscript Printer Descriptions) for varying printers. {{port|print/foomatic-filters}} may lack compatibility with CUPS, and it conflicts with a needed {{port|print/cups-filters}}. LPR is able to output to non-PostScript printers by using Ghostscript's {{cmd|gs}} as an input filter through printcap. Ghostscript offers a few conversion programs between Postscript and pdf files. Ghostscript (under AGPL) can convert PostScript outputs to printer languages which specific non-Postscript printers can interpret. In addition to PCL, Ghostscript makes ESC printers functional. LPRng includes Ghostscript for printer language conversion too. Ghostscript can be used with LPR, CUPS, or LPRng GhostViewer ({{port|print/gv}}) is a program for viewing Postscript output on the monitor.

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