Since the last GNU GS release Artifex Software have moved from GPL to the GNU Affero GPL V3 the gpl-ghostscript package (at version 9.07), and GNU-GS moved to this license too with this release.
A huge work on new functionalities and bugfixes was done between version 9.06 and 9.14, completely imported in GNU's last version.
Happy printing !
I'm pleased to announce the availability of a test release of the
gnu-gs 8.71.0 package.
Ftp links to the packages on alpha.gnu.org:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/ghostscript/gnu-ghostscript-8.71.0.20100730.tar.bz2
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/ghostscript/gnu-ghostscript-8.71.0.20100730.tar.xz
A lot of changes are available for security reason, all described in
the NEWS file. Thanks to Richard Stallman and Markus Steinborn (gnu gv
maintainer) to help me in this task.
A new configure option is available for enabled the ghostscript's SAFER
mode by default. This change is only available in the GNU version.
Thanks for your attention and happy testing.
I'm pleased to release the versions 8.63.0 and 8.64.0 of GNU-Ghostscript today. A lot of changes and bug corrections from the respective versions (8.63 and 8.64) of GPL-Ghostscript are included in these versions.
Happy GNU printing !
I'm pleased to announce the availability of two new GNU Ghostscript
releases: gnu-ghostscript-8.61.0 and 8.62.0.
These releases are an adaptation of GPL Ghostscript version 8.61 and
8.62 respectively, with changes to make it compliant with GNU standards
and policies. It is available from the GNU Ghostscript project page:
http://www.gnu.org/software/ghostscript/
These releases includes many bugs fixed over GNU Ghostscript 8.60 :
to bbox otherwise
in gv
The release 8.61.0 contain 2 new files from the Unicode consortium and a
new License text is available in the ghostscript sources to cover
this: LICENSE.Unicode. Many thanks to Brett Smith from the FSF Licensing
service to help me to clarify the situation.
Enjoy !
Didier Link
Hi all,
I'm pleased to announce the version 8.60.0 of GNU gs !
This is a great release because all the patches and drivers of ESP gs was included. Another change is the x11 driver modularization. You don't need anymore a x11 client installed on an embedded device to have a working gs.
Happy printing !
Didier
I'm pleased to announce the availability of a new GNU Ghostscript
release: gnu-ghostscript-8.56.0.
This release is an adaptation of GPL Ghostscript version 8.56, with
changes to make it compliant with GNU standards and policies. It is
available from the GNU Ghostscript project page:
http://www.gnu.org/software/ghostscript/
This release include many bugs fixed over GNU Ghostscript 8.55, add DMP
printer drivers and ppds (thanks to Sahaya Darcius) and append a patch
number to package version to avoid confusion with GPL release.
This list is from the 8.56 GPL version released by Artifex Software,
Inc. and artofcode LLC :
* numerous bug fixes and improvements
* comformance with the Quality Logic CET suite for Postscript has
been improved, a special 'gs_cet.ps' prefix file can be sent with a job
to produce output closer to that of the reference implementation
Enjoy !
Didier Link
I'm pleased to announce the release of the gnu-ghostscript-8.55.
This release is an adaptation of GPL Ghostscript version 8.54, with
changes to make it compliant with GNU standards and policies. It is
available from the GNU Ghostscript project page:
http://www.gnu.org/software/ghostscript/
This release include many bugs fixed over GNU Ghostscript 8.16, and an
update of the configure script for a better flexibility.
This list is from the 8.54 GPL version released by Artifex Software,
Inc. and artofcode LLC :
DeviceN (spot color) handling and the PDF interpreter.
using the lib/PDFX_def.ps prefix approach. See doc/Ps2pdf.htm
documentation.
generates high-level PostScript including text, images and
graphics.
(10x to 90x on files with many small transparency
regions/groups).
Enjoy !
Sorry, shame on me, I make a bad tarball, gs can't work. It's my fault. I reload it soon without errors. Verify that your version wasn't uploaded on the ftp site the 17 of May 11h55.
Thanks for your patience !!
Didier Link
A new release is available, the only changes over gnu_ghostscript-8.15 is the name of the tarball and a few addition in the Resource directory.
Warning for the CJK fonts users, the CMap files aren't distributed in the GNU release because of a problem of license, please see the README file in Resource/CMap/ directory. I keep contact with some people to solve this issue for the next release.
The "arch" repository is no longer used, please consider the savannah cvs repository instead.
Regards.
Didier Link
I'm pleased to announce the release of the version 8.15 of gnu_ghostscript. This release is based on the 8.15 GPL version released the 23th of september 2004.
This new features are from the www.ghostscript.com web site about this version :
"This release includes many bug fixes over the previous AFPL Ghostscript 8.14 release, improved font rendering, and offers significantly better PDF generation and handling over GPL 8.01. We recommend upgrading to all our free users."
Best regards.
Didier
From now on new developments will be done in GNU arch archives at http://www.atai.org/archarchives/atai@gnu.org--2004/ in the branch ghostscript--gnu--8.0. The CVS repository in savannah will be updated periodically from time to time to keep up with the latest sources, but the updates will be done infrequently. To access the latest sources, use GNU arch. To learn more about Arch, a new, advanced source version management system, see http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-arch/ and http://www.gnuarch.org/
This is to announce the release of GNU Ghostscript
version 8.01.
GNU Ghostscript is an interpreter for the Postscript
language and the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF),
a set of C procedures (the Ghostscript lib) that
implements the graphics capabilities that appear as
primitive operations in the Postscript language and in
PDF, and a set of utility programs that include the
ability to convert PostScript to PDF.
The main changes since the last release (7.07b) are
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.
GNU Ghostscript is based on the GPLed Ghostscript made
by Ralph Giles, artofcode LLC and Artifex Software,
Inc. Thanks to Ralph's hard work for making this
release of Ghostscript possible.
GNU Ghostscript is maintained by Andy
Tai,atai@gnu.org. For bugs or issues regarding the
GNU version of Ghostscript, please send them to
bug-ghostscript@gnu.org or atai@gnu.org. Please do
not contact artofcode LLC or Ralph Giles for bugs or
support issues in this version of Ghostscript as they
are not responsible for it.
This release is available via ftp at
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ghostscript/gnughostscript-8.01.tar.gz
and GNU ftp mirror sites worldwide.
Andy Tai
atai@gnu.org
2004-02-14
The current stable version of GNU Ghostscript (7.07) has been imported into the GNU CVS.