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How do you call ghostscript? I found an interesting part in the GPL FAQ http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html: Can I release a non-free program that's designed to load a GPL-covered plug-in? It depends on how the program invokes its plug-ins. For instance, if the program uses only simple fork and ...

Thanks for the answer.

Are you sure that this does not hurt the GPL ? How I understood only commandline calling is conform to GPL(if the calling programm is not GPL conform)?

Hello,
I want to use imagemagick without GPL problems. But I need the pdf reading feature. How I unterstand I could build imagemagick with --without-gslib to avoid GPL problems. Is that correct? Where do I need to define this flag in Visual Studio?

Thanks for your help!
chris