9.56.1
New PDF Interpreter is now enabled by default: See Changes Coming to the PDF Interpreter
libgs is now threadsafe
The PSD output devices now write ICC profiles to their output files for improved color fidelity.
Ghostscript/GhostPDL can now output Apple Raster and URF format image files: via the "appleraster" or "urf" output devices (using the cups implementation of those formats).
pkgsrc changes (for fonts/ghostscript-cidfonts-ryumin):
- Add SUBST_NOOP_OK.ttf_path, at least for the default `cidfmap-adobe' that's a
noop
Changes:
9.53.0
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Highlights in this release include:
- The 9.53.0 release is primarily maintenance.
- The most obvious change is the (re-)introduction of the patch level to the
version number, this helps facilitate a revised policy on handling security
related issues.
- Our efforts in code hygiene and maintainability continue.
- We have added the capability to build with the Tesseract OCR engine. In
such a build, new devices are available (pdfocr8/pdfocr24/pdfocr32) which
render the output file to an image, OCR that image, and output the image
"wrapped" up as a PDF file, with the OCR generated text information
included as "invisible" text (in PDF terms, text rendering mode 3).
Due to some patches to the Tesseract sources that are required (integrated
upstream, but awaiting release), time constraints, and the experimental
nature of the feature, we only support including Tesseract from source, not
linking to Tesseract shared libraries. Whether we add this capability will
be largely dependant on community demand for the feature.
- We have added Python bindings for the gsapi interface, can be found in
demos/python. These are experimental, and we welcome feedback from
interested developers.
- For those integrating Ghostscript/GhostPDL via the gsapi interface, we have
added new capabilities to that, specifically in terms of setting and
interrogating device parameters. These, along with the existing interface
calls, are documented in: Ghostscript Interpreter API
- IMPORTANT: In consultation with a representative of (OpenPrinting) it is
our intention to deprecate and, in the not distant future, remove the
OpenPrinting Vector/Raster Printer Drivers (that is, the opvp and oprp
devices).
If you rely on either of these devices, please get in touch with us, so we
can discuss your use case, and revise our plans accordingly.
- IMPORTANT: We have forked LittleCMS2 into LittleCMS2mt (the "mt" indicating
"multi-thread"). LCMS2 is not thread safe and cannot be made thread safe
without breaking the ABI. Our fork will be thread safe and include
performance enhancements (these changes have all be been offered and
rejected upstream). We will maintain compatibility between Ghostscript and
LCMS2 for a time, but not in perpetuity. If there is sufficient interest,
our fork will be available as its own package separately from Ghostscript
(and MuPDF).
- The usual round of bug fixes, compatibility changes, and incremental
improvements.
Makefile
Adjust for splitting ghostscript-{,a}gpl done before.
Convert LICENSE from generic-nonlicense to 2-clause-bsd.
Set MAINTAINER, to notice-quick-if-fail.
PLIST
Convert path from ${PKGVERSION} to ${PKGVERSION_NOREV}.
files/cidfmap-adobe
Add one entry
/Ryumin-Light /WadaMin-Regular
(NO PKGREVISION++, binaries may not have been built yet).
Thanks dholland@ for taking care of -agpl and -gpl split.
to address issues with NetBSD-6(and earlier)'s fontconfig not being
new enough for pango.
While doing that, also bump freetype2 dependency to current pkgsrc
version.
Suggested by tron in PR 47882
and providing easy installation for Japanese font for ghostscript,
new package imported (from wip).
Ryumin-Light and GothicBBB are the most frequently used fonts
in Japanese documents. This package will add the capability for
gs to display Japanese document with those reference.
Options to choose alternate fonts for them, see options.mk,
and set to PKG_OPTIONS.gcr_type, currently default is ipa.
