Can someone please review the final changes for integration of latest 
version of Ghostscript (8.64) ?

If everything looks fine then this can be integrated in snv_123.

Regards,
Sonam
> Sonam Gupta wrote:
>> We will be upgrading to Ghostscript 8.70 after integration for 8.64 
>> is done. Due to the change in license for 8.70 it might take lot of 
>> time to upgrade to 8.70 at present. Ghostscript 8.64 is needed in 
>> SolarisNext.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sonam
>> Steven M. Christensen wrote:
>>> 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
>>>>
>>
>


Reply via email to