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Ghostscript

Interpreter for PostScript and PDF files, used to view, print, convert and compress PDF documents.

Completely free
Windows, macOS and Linux
No account
No watermark

Overview

Features described on its official website and in its Wikipedia article: format conversion.

File formats mentioned: PDF, PNG, JPEG and TIFF.

Services and protocols mentioned: Matrix.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information

“It can also be used as a file format converter, such as PostScript to PDF converter.” — Wikipédia (CC BY-SA 4.0), 10 November 2026

At a glance

Ghostscript is completely free: no known feature is locked behind a paid plan.

Its licence could not be established at the source: check the terms on the official website.

Strengths

No account needed
No advertising
No watermark on exports

Sources and checks

Facts collected from LicitPro manual check (credit card, account, watermark, free status, ads, commercial use) — 10 November 2026
Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) — 6 November 2026
Last technical check: 6 November 2026
Facts manually checked on 10 November 2026
Description from ghostscript.com — Résumé éditorial LicitPro

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