The latest stable release of Ghostscript is now 8.70. The freshmeat page at
http://freshmeat.net/projects/ghostscript describes the new bits. The main changes seem to be - as listed - Changes: 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. GPL3 is surely an issue that might prevent moving to this. The security fixes might also be important. Steve C. Sonam Gupta wrote: > Hi, > > Please review the latest changes made for Ghostscript 8.64 integration. > > Previous Webrev > ------------- > http://cr.opensolaris.org/~sonam007/ghostscript_lates/ > > Latest Webrev > ----------- > http://cr.opensolaris.org/~sonam007/webrev/ > > In the latest changes two patches have been introduced. Both these > patches are required for Japanese locales. > > usr/src/cmd/ghostscript/Patches/4732635,5033581.patch > usr/src/cmd/ghostscript/Patches/6360710,6360803.patch > > 4732635,5033581.patch > ----------------- > Without this patch ghostscript does not work with Japanese ttf fonts. It > cribs for certain Japanese fonts > > Can't find (or can't open) font file > /usr/share/ghostscript/8.63/Resource/Font/Ryumin-Light-EUC-V. > Can't find (or can't open) font file Ryumin-Light-EUC-V. > Querying operating system for font files... > Can't find (or can't open) font file > /usr/share/ghostscript/8.63/Resource/Font/Ryumin-Light-EUC-V. > Can't find (or can't open) font file Ryumin-Light-EUC-V. > Didn't find this font on the system! > Substituting font Courier for Ryumin-Light-EUC-V. > > 6360710,6360803.patch > ------------------ > Without this patch certain characters are rotated 90 degrees when > viewing Japanese PostScript. > > Thanks & Regards, > Sonam > _______________________________________________ > sfwnv-discuss mailing list > sfwnv-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sfwnv-discuss >
