which seems to actually exist is recorded. (When I updated jpeg from
6.2 to 7, the shlib major changed, ghostscript was not rebuilt, and it
failed to run.)
Proposed on tech-pkg on 22 October, with no objections received.
The license is now GPLv3 or later. A large number of issues with
transparency were fixed. Several significant fixes to font handling,
especially when generating PDF, were made. Numerous robustness,
correctness, and performance improvements were made. Security fixes
addressing CVE-2009-0583 and CVE-2009-0792 were made. New generic
Esc/Page devices, eplmono and eplcolor, were added, as well as the
cdnj500 device to support the HP DesignJet 500. The size of PostScript
integers was limited to 32 bits, as recommended in the specification.
XXX: does not fix build with cups option and jpeg7.
This changes the buildlink3.mk files to use an include guard for the
recursive include. The use of BUILDLINK_DEPTH, BUILDLINK_DEPENDS,
BUILDLINK_PACKAGES and BUILDLINK_ORDER is handled by a single new
variable BUILDLINK_TREE. Each buildlink3.mk file adds a pair of
enter/exit marker, which can be used to reconstruct the tree and
to determine first level includes. Avoiding := for large variables
(BUILDLINK_ORDER) speeds up parse time as += has linear complexity.
The include guard reduces system time by avoiding reading files over and
over again. For complex packages this reduces both %user and %sys time to
half of the former time.
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:
-bugfixes
-multithreaded rendering
-Images are now always interpolated in their source colorspace
-Support for OpenPrinting Vector devices has been upgraded to version 1.0
-two new devices: cairo, svgwrite
-maximum number of color components has been reduced to 8 (from 252)
-The -Z: debugging option now uses 'realtime' instead of 'usertime'
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.
option in ghostscript-esp, although there it was on by default.
Here it is off by default, which is more in keeping with how the "cups" option
is generally used - it is usually off by default, and a CUPS user would
usually add "cups" to the global options.
doesn't currently pull in CUPS itself. Generally that means the
package builds without CUPS support. However, if you are
using Pkgsrc on a system with CUPS installed via some other means (E.g.
Linux with another packaging system, or even a second Pkgsrc root probably)
then things can go wrong.
I solve this case here by explicitly disabling CUPS support. For
normal cases this should mean "No change", but in exotic cases it fixes
the build and install.
Of course, there may be value in using the CUPS support, but it isn't clear
whether the right way to do that is to add a "cups" package option or to
have a second ghostscript-cups package that CUPS depends on - it kind of
looks like the latter is closer to correct at first glance.
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.
