INFO ==== The latest upstream release of GNU Ghostscript, version 8.50, has been packaged for Cygwin. This is the first release in the 8.5x stable series of Ghostscript. In addition to many bug fixes it contains numerous new features. Most obvious will be improved font handling and rasterization, and better support for PDF 1.4 and 1.5 documents.
This program was originally released 2004-12-10 as AFPL Ghostscript 8.50. This version is the same code released under the GNU GPL license. GNU Ghostscript home page: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ UPDATE ====== To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'ghostscript' from the 'Graphics' category. Then click on the 'skip' field next to 'ghostscript' until '8.50-1' is displayed. DOWNLOAD: ========= Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: ========== If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. ADDITONAL INFORMATION ========== Version 8.50 (2005-12-31) New features since the 8.1x releases: * Topological grid fitting, an original method developed for Ghostscript by Dr. Igor V. Melichev, improves the rendering of True Type fonts at small resolutions. See the documentation for GridFitTT for information on this feature. * The PDF writer now implements PDF 1.4 encryption. See the encryption parameter documentation for more information. * A new rendering method for shadings, developed for Ghostscript by Dr. Igor V. Melichev, improves the quality and performance of rasterization on continuous tone devices. The new method allows hardware or software acceleration with help of customizable routines for filling areas with a linearly varying color functions. * Better support for running Ghostscript in "Job Server" mode as a daemon to continually accept and convert a series of independent files. * Also new is the Rinkj deivce, an experimental new driver for some inkjet printers using ETS screening and color profiles to achieve very high quality output for tuned output. See the Rinkj section for more information. * We now support PDF 1.5 files, including the new compression and encryption modes. * We have beta support for JPEG 2000 compressed images, using the JasPer compression library. In this release this support is only enabled as in the default autoconf (POSIX) and MSVC builds. CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: ================================= To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. MAINTAINER ========== James R. Phillips
