diff --git a/app-text/ghostscript-gpl/Manifest b/app-text/ghostscript-gpl/Manifest
index 5dbdae21168cf..24b545811f468 100644
--- a/app-text/ghostscript-gpl/Manifest
+++ b/app-text/ghostscript-gpl/Manifest
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
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diff --git a/app-text/ghostscript-gpl/ghostscript-gpl-9.19.ebuild b/app-text/ghostscript-gpl/ghostscript-gpl-9.19.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..f5a1c676c9f26
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-text/ghostscript-gpl/ghostscript-gpl-9.19.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,241 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI=5
+
+inherit autotools eutils multilib versionator flag-o-matic toolchain-funcs
+
+DESCRIPTION="Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF"
+HOMEPAGE="http://ghostscript.com/"
+
+MY_P=${P/-gpl}
+GSDJVU_PV=1.6
+PVM=$(get_version_component_range 1-2)
+PVM_S=$(replace_all_version_separators "" ${PVM})
+SRC_URI="
+	https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/releases/download/gs${PVM_S}/${MY_P}.tar.bz2
+	mirror://gentoo/${PN}-9.12-patchset-1.tar.bz2
+	djvu? ( mirror://sourceforge/djvu/gsdjvu-${GSDJVU_PV}.tar.gz )"
+
+LICENSE="AGPL-3 CPL-1.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-fbsd ~sparc-fbsd ~x86-fbsd"
+IUSE="cups dbus djvu gtk idn linguas_de static-libs tiff X"
+RESTRICT="djvu? ( bindist )"
+
+COMMON_DEPEND="
+	app-text/libpaper
+	media-libs/fontconfig
+	>=media-libs/freetype-2.4.9:2=
+	media-libs/jbig2dec
+	>=media-libs/lcms-2.6:2
+	>=media-libs/libpng-1.6.2:0=
+	>=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.7:=
+	virtual/jpeg:0
+	cups? ( >=net-print/cups-1.3.8 )
+	dbus? ( sys-apps/dbus )
+	djvu? ( app-text/djvu )
+	gtk? ( || ( x11-libs/gtk+:3 x11-libs/gtk+:2 ) )
+	idn? ( net-dns/libidn )
+	tiff? ( >=media-libs/tiff-4.0.1:0= )
+	X? ( x11-libs/libXt x11-libs/libXext )
+"
+
+DEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}
+	virtual/pkgconfig
+"
+
+RDEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}
+	>=app-text/poppler-data-0.4.5-r1
+	>=media-fonts/urw-fonts-2.4.9
+	linguas_ja? ( media-fonts/kochi-substitute )
+	linguas_ko? ( media-fonts/baekmuk-fonts )
+	linguas_zh_CN? ( media-fonts/arphicfonts )
+	linguas_zh_TW? ( media-fonts/arphicfonts )
+	!!media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std
+	!!media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-other
+	!<net-print/cups-filters-1.0.36-r2
+"
+
+S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
+
+LANGS="ja ko zh_CN zh_TW"
+for X in ${LANGS} ; do
+	IUSE="${IUSE} linguas_${X}"
+done
+
+pkg_setup() {
+	if use djvu; then
+		ewarn "With USE=\"djvu\", distribution of binaries is restricted!"
+		ewarn "See http://djvu.sourceforge.net/gsdjvu/COPYING for details on licensing issues."
+	fi
+}
+
+src_prepare() {
+	# remove internal copies of various libraries
+	rm -rf "${S}"/cups/libs || die
+	rm -rf "${S}"/expat || die
+	rm -rf "${S}"/freetype || die
+	rm -rf "${S}"/jbig2dec || die
+	rm -rf "${S}"/jpeg{,xr} || die
+	rm -rf "${S}"/lcms{,2} || die
+	rm -rf "${S}"/libpng || die
+	rm -rf "${S}"/tiff || die
+	rm -rf "${S}"/zlib || die
+	# remove internal CMaps (CMaps from poppler-data are used instead)
+	rm -rf "${S}"/Resource/CMap || die
+
+	# apply various patches, many borrowed from Fedora
+	# http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/ghostscript.git
+	EPATCH_SUFFIX="patch" EPATCH_FORCE="yes"
+	EPATCH_SOURCE="${WORKDIR}/patches/"
+	EPATCH_EXCLUDE="
+		ghostscript-gpl-8.61-multilib.patch
+		ghostscript-gpl-8.64-noopt.patch
+		ghostscript-gpl-9.07-wrf-snprintf.patch
+		ghostscript-gpl-9.12-gs694154.patch
+		ghostscript-gpl-9.12-icc-missing-check.patch
+		ghostscript-gpl-9.12-sys-zlib.patch
+	"
+	epatch
+
+	if use djvu ; then
+		unpack gsdjvu-${GSDJVU_PV}.tar.gz
+		cp gsdjvu-${GSDJVU_PV}/gsdjvu "${S}" || die
+		cp gsdjvu-${GSDJVU_PV}/gdevdjvu.c "${S}"/base || die
+		epatch "${WORKDIR}"/patches-gsdjvu/gsdjvu-1.3-${PN}-8.64.patch
+		cp "${S}"/contrib/contrib.mak "${S}"/base/contrib.mak.gsdjvu || die
+		grep -q djvusep "${S}"/contrib/contrib.mak || \
+			cat gsdjvu-${GSDJVU_PV}/gsdjvu.mak >> "${S}"/contrib/contrib.mak || die
+
+		# install ps2utf8.ps, bug #197818
+		cp gsdjvu-${GSDJVU_PV}/ps2utf8.ps "${S}"/lib || die
+		sed -i -e '/$(EXTRA_INIT_FILES)/ a\ps2utf8.ps \\' \
+			"${S}"/base/unixinst.mak || die "sed failed"
+	fi
+
+	if ! use gtk ; then
+		sed -i -e "s:\$(GSSOX)::" \
+			-e "s:.*\$(GSSOX_XENAME)$::" \
+			"${S}"/base/unix-dll.mak || die "sed failed"
+	fi
+
+	# Force the include dirs to a neutral location.
+	sed -i \
+		-e "/^ZLIBDIR=/s:=.*:=${T}:" \
+		configure.ac || die
+	# Some files depend on zlib.h directly.  Redirect them. #573248
+	sed -i \
+		-e '/^zlib_h/s:=.*:=:' \
+		base/lib.mak || die
+
+	# search path fix
+	# put LDFLAGS after BINDIR, bug #383447
+	sed -i -e "s:\$\(gsdatadir\)/lib:/usr/share/ghostscript/${PVM}/$(get_libdir):" \
+		-e "s:exdir=.*:exdir=/usr/share/doc/${PF}/examples:" \
+		-e "s:docdir=.*:docdir=/usr/share/doc/${PF}/html:" \
+		-e "s:GS_DOCDIR=.*:GS_DOCDIR=/usr/share/doc/${PF}/html:" \
+		-e 's:-L$(BINDIR):& $(LDFLAGS):g' \
+		"${S}"/Makefile.in "${S}"/base/*.mak || die "sed failed"
+
+	cd "${S}" || die
+	eautoreconf
+
+	cd "${S}/ijs" || die
+	eautoreconf
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	local FONTPATH
+	for path in \
+		/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts \
+		/usr/share/fonts/Type1 \
+		/usr/share/fonts \
+		/usr/share/poppler/cMap/Adobe-CNS1 \
+		/usr/share/poppler/cMap/Adobe-GB1 \
+		/usr/share/poppler/cMap/Adobe-Japan1 \
+		/usr/share/poppler/cMap/Adobe-Japan2 \
+		/usr/share/poppler/cMap/Adobe-Korea1
+	do
+		FONTPATH="$FONTPATH${FONTPATH:+:}$path"
+	done
+
+	# We force the endian configure flags until this is fixed:
+	# http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696498
+	PKGCONFIG=$(type -P $(tc-getPKG_CONFIG)) \
+	econf \
+		--enable-dynamic \
+		--enable-freetype \
+		--enable-fontconfig \
+		--enable-openjpeg \
+		--enable-$(tc-endian)-endian \
+		--disable-compile-inits \
+		--with-drivers=ALL \
+		--with-fontpath="$FONTPATH" \
+		--with-ijs \
+		--with-jbig2dec \
+		--with-libpaper \
+		--without-luratech \
+		$(use_enable cups) \
+		$(use_enable dbus) \
+		$(use_enable gtk) \
+		$(use_with cups pdftoraster) \
+		$(use_with idn libidn) \
+		$(use_with tiff system-libtiff) \
+		$(use_with X x)
+
+	if use djvu ; then
+		sed -i -e 's!$(DD)bbox.dev!& $(DD)djvumask.dev $(DD)djvusep.dev!g' \
+			"${S}"/Makefile || die "sed failed"
+	fi
+
+	cd "${S}/ijs" || die
+	econf \
+		--enable-shared \
+		$(use_enable static-libs static)
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	# -j1 needed because of bug #550926
+	emake -j1 so all
+
+	cd "${S}/ijs" || die
+	emake
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	emake -j1 DESTDIR="${D}" install-so install
+
+	use djvu && dobin gsdjvu
+
+	# move gsc to gs, bug #343447
+	# gsc collides with gambit, bug #253064
+	mv -f "${ED}"/usr/bin/{gsc,gs} || die
+
+	cd "${S}/ijs" || die
+	emake -j1 DESTDIR="${D}" install
+
+	# rename the original cidfmap to cidfmap.GS
+	mv "${ED}/usr/share/ghostscript/${PVM}/Resource/Init/cidfmap"{,.GS} || die
+
+	# install our own cidfmap to handle CJK fonts
+	insinto /usr/share/ghostscript/${PVM}/Resource/Init
+	doins \
+		"${WORKDIR}/fontmaps/CIDFnmap" \
+		"${WORKDIR}/fontmaps/cidfmap"
+	for X in ${LANGS} ; do
+		if use linguas_${X} ; then
+			doins "${WORKDIR}/fontmaps/cidfmap.${X}"
+		fi
+	done
+
+	# install the CMaps from poppler-data properly, bug #409361
+	dosym /usr/share/poppler/cMaps /usr/share/ghostscript/${PVM}/Resource/CMap
+
+	use static-libs || prune_libtool_files --all
+
+	if ! use linguas_de; then
+		rm -r "${ED}"/usr/share/man/de || die
+	fi
+}