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>1.0.1</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