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Ghostscript version 3.33 was released in April 1995 by Aladdin.
I have ported version 3.33 to OS-9/68000 on the MM/1, and put
together a collection of the files needed to run it, with an
assortment of fonts and demos. Except for the "kwin" Kwindows
driver, it SHOULD run on any OSK machine.
The complete source, and compiled binaries for MSDOS and some
other systems can be found on ftp.cs.wisc.edu /ghost/aladdin.
This release carries a different Copyright notice than earlier
GNU/FSF releases. Its in the file called "public". Read it.
Quick summary of new features since the last version I posted
(version 2.6.1) : (for a full description of all
changes in recent versions, see files "news", "current", and
"history".)
Reads Adobe PDF (Acrobat) format files.
Reads JPEG files.
Had a few confusing moments with the JPEG reader -- it bombed
on the test files supplied with the JPEG-5A lib. Then I tried
the "jpegshow" program recently uploaded to DELPHI -- it said
the files I was trying to read were defective (?!!). Downloaded
a couple other JPEG files and found both "jpegshow" and Ghostscript
read them just fine.
Full Postscript Level II support.
No GIF output -- previous versions would convert a Postscript
file to a GIF - this has been dropped by the author to avoid
any possible legal difficulties due to a copyright or patent
claim on the compression method used in GIF files. The
author of Ghostscript, L. Peter Deutsch of Aladdin, posted
an explanation in comp.lang.postscript.
The Kwindows display driver in this compiled version has a slightly
bigger display - you can read smaller fonts on the screen - and some
improvements in speed in some of the graphics routines.
The printer drivers now send their output to "/p" by default - use
the "-sOUTPUTFILE=<path>" switch in the command line to change it.
In order to keep it small enough to run on a 3-meg computer, I have
NOT included the "debug" features and I picked an assortment of
output drivers that I hope will cover most users. Apologies to those
I left out. The output drivers included in this version are:
kwin deskjet djet500 epson epsonc eps9mid eps9high ibmpro
st800 ap3250 laserjet ljetplus ljet2p ljet3 ljet4 cdeskjet
cdjcolor cdjmono cdj550 pj pjxl pjxl300 bj10e bj200
dfaxhigh
If you want to run Ghostscript, and your printer is not (and cannot
emulate) one of the above, let me know. Maybe I could post some other
versions with different drivers. (Or in individual cases -- mail a
disk). ((johnreed@delphi.com))
The program passed my 3-meg test (make a 6+meg ramdisk to tie up
memory and try to run it). There was not a lot of room to spare.