freebsd-ports/print/ghostscript8/pkg-descr
Kirill Ponomarev cfdce2f20d Announce the release of GPL Ghostscript. This release is based on
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
2004-10-16 07:28:34 +00:00

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Ghostscript is the well-known PostScript interpreter which is available for
all common and most esoteric platforms and supports many different printers
and some displays.
Versions entitled "GPL Ghostscript" are distributed with the GNU General
Public License, which allows free use, and free copying and redistribution
under certain conditions (including, in some cases, commercial distribution).
This port includes add-on packages (not part of the official gs release)
o HP2200 driver for HP DeskJet 8xx and Business Inkjet 2200
- http://hp.sourceforge.net/gs-hp2200.php
o DJ970 driver for HP DeskJet 970CXi
- http://www.harsch.net/Ghostscript/ghostscript.html
o Special drivers for verious printer models
- Alps, Canon, Epson, NEC, Lexmark, Ricoh,...
o Additional contributed uniprint driver profiles for
- Epson Stylus Color 740 and Epson LQ-1170
WWW: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/gnu/index.htm