ghostscript-9.18

[Fernando de Oliveira]

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​http://downloads.ghostscript.com/public/MD5SUMS

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​http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.18/News.htm

1 Version 9.18 (2015-09-23)

This is the thirteenth full release in the stable 9.x series, and is a
maintenance release.

Highlights in this release include:

  • A substantial revision of the build system and GhostPDL directory
    structure, meaning the GhostPCL and GhostXPS "products" are now
    built by the Ghostscript build system "proper" rather than having
    their own builds which called the Ghostscript build system for
    certain parts of the builds.

    Ghostscript-only users should not be affected by this change.

    For users of the PCL and XPS interpreters (collectively downloaded
    as "GhostPDL") there is a new, "flatter" directory structure and
    only one configure and one make invocation to build all the
    products. There are also some executable default name changes to
    bring the PCL and XPS binaries in line with the Ghostscript ones.
    All executables now end up in the "bin" directory (or build specific
    variant thereof, e.g. "debugbin"). The PCL executable, by default,
    is now "gpcl6" on Unix like systems and "gpcl6win??.exe" (where "??"
    is either "32" or "64"). The XPS executable remains "gxps" on
    Unix-like systems, but similarly becomes "gxpswin??.exe" on Windows.

    Those using scripts or other automated processes will need to take
    steps to cope with these changes.

  • A new method of internally inserting devices into the device chain
    has been developed, named "device subclassing". This allows suitably
    written devices to be more easily and consistently as "filter"
    devices.

    The first fruit of this is a new implementation of the
    "-dFirstPage"/"-dLastPage" feature which functions a device filter
    in the Ghostscript graphics library, meaning it works consistently
    with all input languages.

  • The "ghostpdl.inf" file, provided to simplify installing a
    Postscript printer configure to produce output to suit Ghostscript's
    "pdfwrite" device is now available as a digitally signed version:
    "ghostpdl.cat".

  • Plus the usual round of bug fixes, compatibility changes, and
    incremental improvements.

For a list of open issues, or to report problems, please visit
bugs.ghostscript.com.

1.1 Incompatible changes

No recorded incompatible changes.

1.2 Changelog

See the history file for complete log of changes.
[http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.18/History9.htm]

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If anyone wants these tickets before I get them updated, please take it.

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Fixed at revision 16547.