|Approximately 238 bugs have been fixed since version 8.62. Of particular note
|are robustness and performance improvements with large files, invalid PDF, and
|font handling.
|
|The major new feature of this release is multithreaded rendering. This can be
|requested by passing -dNumRenderingThreads=n on the command line. The input
|document is first parsed, and then each page is split into n bands which are
|rendered concurrently. This can provide a significant reduction in processing
|time on multi-core systems.
|
|Images are now always interpolated in their source colorspace. This improves
|correctness for XPS documents and avoids bypassing the custom color management
|callbacks for interpolated images. Interpolation and color management are both
|expensive operations, so this affects performance with large images. The effect
|can be positive or negative depending on the file and the target resolution. If
|performance is a problem, we suggest running with -dNOINTERPOLATION.
|
|Support for OpenPrinting Vector devices has been upgraded to version 1.0.
|
|There are two new devices in this release, both experimental. Behdad Esfahbod
|has contributed a cairo output device which uses the cairo graphics library to
|generate PDF, SVG, EPS, or PNG files, based on the requested filename
|extension. The svgwrite device directly outputs Scalable Vector Graphics, the
|W3C XML vector graphics format. Both support only vector art at this point;
|text and images will not be represented efficiently.
|
|Incompatible changes
|
|The maximum number of color components has been reduced to 8 (from 252) as a
|performance improvement. Eight is the largest number commonly used and the
|largest number for which we support continuous tone images. Users with special
|needs can restore the previous behavior by setting the
|GS_CLIENT_COLOR_MAX_COMPONENTS preprocessor symbol to the required number of
|components at compile time.
|
|The -Z: debugging option now uses 'realtime' instead of 'usertime' when
|reporting timing information on unix-like systems. This has always been the
|case on windows-like systems.
|
|Obsolete makefiles for the DesqView environment have been removed.
- Use OPTION for driver selection.
- Revert bogus Japanese font support patch. This version already
supports Japanese TTF/OTF.
- Add more Asian fonts in cidfmap.
- Clean up Makfile.
- Update MASTER_SITES for MD2K driver
- Add DMPRT driver
- Add patches necessary for building cups-pstoraster
- Add KRGB support patch for IJS driver
Submitted by: KATO Tsuguru <tkato432@yahoo.com>
Tested by: Jose M Rodriguez <josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es>
Pointy hat to: barner [1]
Reported by: kris via pointyhat [1]
- The Ghostscript 8.15 compatibilty patch (patch-pcl3_eprn_eprnrend.c)
is by Till Kamppeter (till.kamppeter at gmx.net) and has originally
been posted on [3]
Submitted by: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org> [1],
Jose M Rodriguez <josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es> [2]
PR: ports/77185 [1], ports/76731 (partly) [2]
Obtained from: http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/printing/ghostscript-8.x/patches/ghostscript-8.15-pcl3-driver-api8.patch [3]
the AFPL Ghostscript 8.00 release of 14 months ago. The most
significant new feature since 7.0x is support for DeviceN
colorspaces, up to 8 colorants total at 8 bits per component. Also,
pdfwrite has seen considerable improvement in font handling, and
many other bug fixes.
PR: ports/72326
Submitted by: Ports Fury
Take measures to cope with too frequent update (without version numbering)
of Samsung-SmartGDI driver
PR: 54707
Submitted by: KATO Tsuguru <tkato@prontomail.com>
Result of diff 20030608 version and new version.
Change some style (// to /* */, \x1b to \033, etc...)
Overcome the problem that the printer does not accept
compressed data bands bigger than 64 kB.
Pointed out by: horio shoichi <bugsgrief@bugsgrief.net>
Adam <blueeskimo@gmx.net>
Rob Lahaye <lahaye@snu.ac.kr>
- Fix build on -current
- Fix checksum of gdevdj9.c.gz (again)
- Get much improved ps2epsi stuff from ghostscript-gnu version
PR: 37500
Submitted by: Ports Fury
(2) $MASTER_SITES optimization may not work if $DISTFILES has comma
separated keywords after ":" separator.
PR: ports/36762 (2)
Reported by: tkato (1), Lev A. Serebryakov <lev@serebryakov.spb.ru> (2)
Pointy hat to: kuriyama
Modifications against PR are:
o $MASTER_SITES substitution.
o Typo in scripts/configure.
I don't know why $MLINKS entries are not in generated plist...
PR: ports/36673
Submitted by: KATO Tsuguru <tkato@prontomail.com>
checksum in place). I don't have access to one of these printers
for testing, but the new driver does at least compile.
I nominate this for re-tagging.
Noticed by: luigi
phrase "PATENT INFRINGEMENT" to one hundred (100) disclaimers and
allows full-bleed printing on the Photosmart 100. Therefore do the
PORTVERSION Bump.
Invoke perl more specifically.
Support Microsoft .htm standard for home page.
PR: 34139
Submitted by: KATO Tsuguru <tkato@prontomail.com>
HP fixed "off-by-one error" in the HPIJS sources, that caused hpijs
to core dump at runtime, when being compiled with -O or -O2.
I confirmed, that everything works perfectly again with -O and -O2.
Bumped port revision, to flag this as an important change.
Thanks to David Suffield from HP who took our (and others) reports
seriously, fixed the bug and released the new HPIJS version.
- created a new distinfo file
- bumped PORTREVISION since this makes sure, that packages are build from
proper source
Submitted by: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>
this is another showstopper after the variable name change and still
doesn't show up here, since I have the sources in DISTFILES dir...
PORTREVISION still doesn't need a bump, since no package could have
been created and if, there is no new port functionality involved with
this fix. Sorry for any trouble, but its too expensive for me, to re-fetch
all files as final test.
Submitted by: "Jamin A. Brown" <jamin@gwi.net>
high quality drivers for Epsons, HPs, ...
- bumped port revision
- modified all target and added a makefile component to build
tool from stp driver (escputil) to do maintenance on epsons
install manpage as well
- variable name changes, new scheme sounds better
- use variables as often as possible in all make targets
to reduce port maintenance as much as possible
- fix two copy and paste mistakes in echo messages
- updated pkg_plist, tested port and package building
as well as removal
- modified configure.batch to build stp driver
- removed port revision, because of new version
- added PCL3 driver (hpdj successor) from Martin Lottermoser
*both* driver, HPDJ and PCL3, are now compiled in
reason: PCL3 is still flagged as BETA and author didn't get much response
Although Martin says, its definitively not ALPHA, its safer to have the
old drivers around, if things fail for some reason.
Martin confirmed, that its possible to have both in one gs binary !!!
- disable configure script temporarily, since dialog needs a driver update
but I don't want to hold back that port any longer.
- enabled as many gs driver as possible
- reorganized MASTER_SITES
- added mirrors
- add a note, that russion mirror isn't up to date, so don't add it
- optimized downloading from 6 different sources by special ordering
- reorganized Makefile completely
- put only ${GS_SOURCES} into EXTRACT_ONLY variable
unpacking other 3rd party src's is handled in post-extract target
- directory creating, patching, unpacking and install actions are
now handeled within the proper make target. This makes port maintenance
much easier, i.e.: if you enter make extract, then only extraction
of things happen, but makefiles are still not patched. Before this
cleanup, things were not so structured and not easy to maintain.
Maybe we get a configure script later, to choose between different
3rd party driver options, then this "sorting" and documenting
will support the migration process...
- silence port by hiding actions with "@"
- insert many informational echoes. This makes port maintenance and
troubleshooting easier
- put more unique comments in front of the different 3rd party modules
- document things better
- use as many environment variables as necessary, so that "numerical"
changes only have to happen on some places and not withing make targets
- use gs version number also in docu directory
- properly install runtime, info and doc files from 3rd party drivers
- put not needed stuff into "NOPORTDOCS" section
- keep old font names to avoid fetching unnecessary things
- updated patches as necessary
- added new patch from Nartin Lottermoser
- removed 2 patches that have been incorporated into gs 6.50
- added needed manual pages
- updated pkg-plist
- finally tested port and package building as well as port removal
new port passes all disciplines ;-)
