fixed a bug in handling of -page option.
fixed a bug in detecting rectangles.
fixed a bug in passing generic libplot arguments to the libplot drivers.
improved handling of composite fonts, especially those having FMapType
other than 2.
improved bounding box tracing in case of text.
improved support for 64-bit systems related to different version of
ghostscript, and integration of pstoedit to gsview.
changed the creation of filenames when using the -split option.
Related to that there is new option -pagenumberformat.
added some features for the LaOS project (http://www.laoslaser.org/)
new backend generating PowerPoint pptx files.
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
New or changed in 3.60:
added option (-minlinewidth) for adjusting very thin (e.g. zero-width) lines to a minimal width.
added an option (-pslanguagelevel) for easy switching the language level to be used by GhostScript during interpretation of the PostScript/PDF file.
new driver for the "Context Free" drawing tool (http://www.contextfreeart.org/ ) contributed by Scott Pakin.
fixed the windows binary version - some drivers were missing.
fixed some problems in handling composite fonts (FontType = 0)
windows 32 bit binary can call 64 bit ghostscript as exe (i.e. not via DLL interface)
support for 64 bit windows and Office 2010
While here, remove restriction, it's "please", not "have to".
see: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/p/pstoedit/pstoedit_3.45-8/pstoedit.copyright
New or changed in 3.50:
* added an option (-gs) to specify the full path to GhostScript (under
Windows - either the .exe or the DLL). This can be used by portable
applications to direct pstoedit to use a specific GhostScript version.
* Stanislav Brabec contributed several improvements to the PCB driver. See
http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/pstoedit-pcb/ on how these can be useful.
* Scott Pakin submitted several improvements to the mpost driver and the
font substitution mechanism.
* new driver for .vtk files e.g. for ParaView - http://www.paraview.org/
- but this is still a very basic version. Thanks to Mitesh Patel for
initiating and testing.
* new driver for cairo (http://cairographics.org/ ) contributed by Dan
McMahill. This driver generates C-code which can be compiled and linked
against the cairo libraries. See the contrib/cairo directory for an
example.
* several improvements on the DXF driver as suggested and sponsored by
Markus Meyer.
* because pstoedit may write its output to stdout, all output written by
GhostScript to stdout is now redirected to stderr in order to avoid mixed
output.
* added a -q option to suppress the initial startup message of pstoedit.
This can by useful when being called via a pipe, e.g. from inkscape.
However, note that this does not suppress all output written to stderr -
see also note above.
* John Bowman fixed a number of problems related to clipping and image
support for the Asymptote backend.
* fixed a compilation problem with g++ V4.x.
* new driver for gcode (.ngc files) (tested with emc see
http://linuxcnc.org). Contributed by Lawrence Glaister.
* some adaptations for newer versions of libming
* fixed a line width problem for xfig format.
* corrected the broken pstoedit.m4 - thanks to Ian Abbott
* some minor code beautifying.
New or changed in 3.45:
* Some minor corrections of warnings issued by Coverity Prevent
(security related checks).
* fixed a bug in the fig backend related to dotted lines.
* added better support for pagesize handling in the driver framework.
* better handling of fonts using 0 encoded characters (thanks to
Vladimir Eltsov)
* fixed a problem which caused newer versions of GhostScript to go
into an endless loop.
New or changed in 3.44:
* hotfix for the Aysmptote driver to make it compatible with
Aysmptote version 1.00.
* removed some diagnostic messages concerning temporary file
handling.
* removed the pstoedit-config.* since this is replaced by the
pkg-config file pstoedit.pc.
New or changed in 3.43:
* some usability improvements as proposed in Debian Bug
Report #347732
[1]http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/msg/c38e1f
79d75b3152?dmode=source&hl=de
* cleaned some minor problems found by the Klocwork checker
([2]www.klocwork.com )
* replaced tempnam with mkstemp where available.
* replaced several string related functions with the secure versions
where available (Windows - VC++2005)
* switched back again to calling GhostScript as .exe instead of via
the DLL in case pstoedit is called via gsview. Reason - there can
be only one instance of GhostScript per process and gsview needs a
second instance.
* a new driver for the OpenOffice metafile format (drvsvm)
contributed by Thorsten Behrens.
* source code cleanup considering messages issued by Gimpel's
FlexeLint/PC-Lint ([3]www.gimpel.com ).
* added a "-glyphs" option. Given this option, the PostScript
frontend passes also (if possible) the glyph names to the backend.
However, so far no backend really uses the glyph names. This is
only a preparation for future work.
* changed the way how Image/Graphicmagick is handled by configure.
Now configure tries to use pkg-config as proposed by the maintainer
of the Debian version of pstoedit (Ray Dassen).
* included a further patch for the Aysmptote driver.
developer is officially maintaining the package.
The rationale for changing this from "tech-pkg" to "pkgsrc-users" is
that it implies that any user can try to maintain the package (by
submitting patches to the mailing list). Since the folks most likely
to care about the package are the folks that want to use it or are
already using it, this would leverage the energy of users who aren't
developers.
the appropriate tool via USE_TOOLS (usually "gs:run"), and remove
ghostscript.mk. This change removes a rather out-dated file from
pkgsrc and switches packages to use the more compact implementation
of the Ghostcript-handling inside the tools framework.
this way, configure will continue, even with no ghostscript installed
at build time. I realli don't want a hard dependency on a specific version.
Should fix build error seen in bulk build.
