Approximately 100 bugs have been fixed since the 8.63 release.
Of particular note in this release are improvements to overprint and
spot color support in documents with transparency, improvements to PDF
and PS output, proper handling of PDF-specific text rendering modes and
support for reading AES-encrypted PDF documents.
Also improved is handling of CJK text, especially in vertical writing
modes, memory footprint processing some files at high resolution and
support for using the system's default paper size on unix.
The interpreter's handling of color spaces has been moved from
PostScript code to C.
A number of the included printer drivers and cups wrappers have been
updated to support a PDF-based workflow. Also fixed are several
long-standing bugs in the pcl drivers with respect to duplex, resolution
and paper tray selection.
that does not do the right thing on Darwin (where shared libs are
created with different linking flags and use dylib rather than so
as an extension).
you need to manually reconfigure unix-dll.mak to make it work, so
do it in hacks.mk.
XXX: this still leaves the issue of libgs.so (et al.) being hardwired
in PLIST, instead of using libgs.dylib (et al.). i'm not sure of
the best way to fix that. at least it compiles now....
changes: a number of bug fixes and improvements
Note: The default device in the gcc build is now the 'x11alpha' device
which provides antialiasing for display. To recover the old
default behaviour add '-sDEVICE=x11' to the command line.
The major milestone of this release is a merge from the ESP Ghostscript
fork, used to support the CUPS printing system. This means that free
operating systems can now ship a single copy of upstream Ghostscript with
their releases. Thanks to Till Kamppeter and Mike Sweet for making this
possible.
This release also includes numerous important bug fixes over the previous
stable versions, as well as improvements to performance, memory footprint,
shading and image handling. We recommend this upgrade to all free users.
While here, add DESTDIR support.
In addition to the usual bug fixes, there are specific performance and
quality improvements in the areas of patterns, shading and image
filtering. Also new in this release is an implementation of the Well
Tempered Screening algorithm in an output device, using Graeme
Gill's IMDI library for efficient color mapping.
pkgsrc change: use the bundled jasper as the pkgsrc one is incompatible
