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14-410: WWF may refer to: Computing and games [ edit ] WWF (file format) , a campaign for unprintable PDF documents Windows Workflow Foundation , a software component of the .NET Framework Words with Friends , a mobile computer game franchise Non-profit organizations [ edit ] World Wide Fund for Nature or World Wildlife Fund,

28-558: A raster image processor (RIP) for raster computer printers —for instance, as an input filter of line printer daemon —or as the RIP engine behind PostScript and PDF viewers. It can also be used as a file format converter, such as PostScript to PDF converter. The ps2pdf conversion program comes with the Ghostscript distribution. Ghostscript can also serve as the back-end for PDF to raster image (png, tiff, jpeg, etc.) converter; this

42-498: A conservation group World Water Forum , an international forum for water issues Working Women's Forum , a training, trade and credit union in India Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia , a defunct Australian trade union Other uses [ edit ] Welded wire fabric or welded wire mesh , a reinforcing material used in poured concrete slabs Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway ,

56-632: A former 2-foot-gauge railroad in Maine, United States WWE (formerly WWF, World Wrestling Federation), an American professional wrestling promotion Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title WWF . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WWF&oldid=1246136161 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

70-585: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages WWF (file format) WWF is a modification of the open standard PDF format for document exchange endorsed by the World Wide Fund for Nature (also abbreviated WWF) Germany. The WWF format is promoted as being more environmentally friendly than other comparable document exchange formats (e.g. PDF or DOC ) since documents in this format are designed to be more difficult to print. The motivation behind

84-453: Is often combined with a PostScript printer driver in " virtual printer " PDF creators. As it takes the form of a language interpreter, Ghostscript can also be used as a general purpose programming environment. Ghostscript has been ported to many operating systems, including Unix-like systems, classic Mac OS , OpenVMS , Microsoft Windows , Plan 9 , MS-DOS , FreeDOS , OS/2 , ArcaOS , Atari TOS , RISC OS and AmigaOS . Ghostscript

98-588: The Aladdin Free Public License (which, despite the name, is not a free software license, as it forbids commercial distribution) and GNU Ghostscript distributed with the GNU General Public License . With version 8.54 in 2006, both development branches were merged again, and dual-licensed releases were still provided. Ghostscript is currently owned by Artifex Software and maintained by Artifex Software employees and

112-657: The PostScript standard. These include: The Ghostscript fonts were developed in the PostScript Type 1 format but have been converted into the TrueType format. As a result, a user can install and use the Ghostscript fonts via most modern software. Furthermore, the Ghostscript fonts are used as parts of various open source applications, e.g., the Linux version of GIMP depends on Graphviz which in turn depends on

126-469: The default PDF interpreters implementation itself was coded in PostScript. The new default PDF interpreter has been rewritten in C entirely, and is faster and more secure than its predecessor, while its interface and graphics library have not changed. Scripting the new C written PDF interpreter from PostScript is still possible. There are several sets of free fonts supplied for Ghostscript, intended to be metrically compatible with common fonts attached with

140-601: The format), for violating the BSD license , for being incompatible with the goals of the free and open source software movement and for the software contacting the WWF without the user's consent . It was criticised by WWF International director of corporate relations Maria Boulos for being "misleading" and having been launched as "a global product" despite being created by the WWF's German division without consultation with WWF International. Ghostscript Ghostscript can be used as

154-609: The security settings for printing set to "not allowed", and the file extension ".wwf". Thus, the inability to print the files comes from the DRM built into Adobe Reader , which looks at a flag in the PDF to see whether printing is allowed. Other PDF readers, such as Ghostscript , may not honour the no-print flag, rendering WWF files printable. The initiative has been criticised for restricting users rights, being ineffective (as non-Adobe readers such as Ghostscript can print documents in

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168-426: The use of the format is to prevent unnecessary printing of documents. The website claims that the file format will be able to be read by most programs that can open ordinary PDF files. At present, the software for creating WWF files is available for Mac OS X 10.4 and for Windows XP and later. An open-source equivalent is available for Linux and for Windows XP and later. WWF files are simply PDF files with

182-622: The worldwide user community. According to Artifex, as of version 9.03, the commercial version of Ghostscript can no longer be freely distributed for commercial purposes without purchasing a license, though the (A)GPL variant allows commercial distribution provided all code using it is released under the (A)GPL. In February 2013, with version 9.07, Ghostscript changed its license from GPLv3 to GNU AGPL . which raised license compatibility questions, for example by Debian . Starting with release 9.55.0 Ghostscript has two built-in PDF interpreters. Until spring 2022, up to Ghostscript version 9.56.1,

196-530: Was originally written by L. Peter Deutsch for the GNU Project , and released under the GNU General Public License in 1988. At the time of the initial release there was a similar commercial software product named GoScript from LaserGo. Later, Deutsch formed Aladdin Enterprises to dual-license Ghostscript also under a proprietary license with an own development fork : Aladdin Ghostscript under

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