Ghostscript is een interpreter voor de PostScript page description language die wordt gebruikt door printers. Hiermee worden de grafische commando's, bedoeld voor de printer, omgezet naar een bitmap-afbeelding. Deze afbeelding kan vervolgens naar bijvoorbeeld het beeldscherm gestuurd worden. De ontwikkelaars hebben versie 8.60 van Ghostscript uitgebracht en voorzien van de volgende aankondiging op de mailinglijst:
Artifex Software, Inc. is pleased to announe the release of GPL Ghostscript 8.60. This is the first in a new stable series.
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.
Note: The default device in the gcc build is temporarily the 'bbox' device instead of the usual 'x11' device. This is a side effect of the device modularization patch from ESP Ghostscript which could not be corrected before release. To recover the old default behaviour add '-sDEVICE=x11' to the command line.
Source packages are available from the usual locations. Windows packages will appear over the next few days.
Thanks to everyone whose hard work made this release possible!
