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- AFPL Ghostscript 6.50 Amiga Release 2
- -------------------------------------
-
- For license, please read doc/PUBLIC. See History for changes in the
- Amiga version.
-
- This is a straight Amiga compilation of AFPL Ghostscript 6.50 - I did
- it because apparently nobody else felt obliged to do it. Otherwise I
- cannot explain why 5.10 on Aminet was still the latest version until
- today :^).
-
- Let's get it straight - having always been a 100% Amiga user, I don't
- know much about Unix sources and makefiles. I trashed the makefiles,
- took the platform-specific stuff from the Amiga 5.10 release and
- compiled everything with StormC 4. It's a mess. Don't download the
- sources. If you want to do a proper port with makefiles and everything
- better start from the scratch. You won't be able to easily rebuild
- it on a Geek Gadgets environment from that archive.
-
- Big improvement (and the reason to take it to the Amiga) over 5.10
- is that PDF files with embedded fonts can be created from Postscript
- documents - currently the only way to do this on the Amiga. PageStream
- does not (yet!) support font embedding, and 5.10 converts fonts to
- graphics, which results in huge PDF files in poor quality.
-
- Installation is easy. Just unpack all archives somewhere and copy the
- directory to wherever you like. Finally, insert the lines:
-
- ; BEGIN Ghostscript
- Assign Ghostscript: <path you put it>
- ; END Ghostscript
-
- into your S:User-StartUp. Please read the docs for usage, if it crashes,
- try increasing the stack (200000 do it for me).
-
- If you want to use the amiga (the default if you don't specify an
- output device) or amiga_custom devices, you better use the 68k version
- (context switches!). I may look into this and improve PPC performance
- of these in future.
-
- As for the Amiga credits, the basis for the Amiga-specific stuff was taken
- from the 5.10 release. So most of the Amiga credits go to the people who
- did the ports of up to GS5.10 (namely, Olaf 'Olsen' Barthel, Joop van de
- Wege, Steffen Opel - sorry if I forgot anyone). The Turboprint device was
- written by Florian Zeiler for Irseesoft.
-
- I tinkered a bit around with it, adding PowerPC and 16/24 bit support.
- I also fixed bugs with graphics boards.
-
- RĂ¼diger Hanke
- tomjoad@muenster.de
-
-
- ======================================
- From the Turboprint-Device source code
- ======================================
-
- This device prints via the Amiga printer driver system "Turboprint" by IrseeSoft.
- Turboprint version 7 or higher is required. This driver does not print
- via the Workbench printer.device - use amiga_printer for this purpose.
-
- There is only one device named "turboprint" for B/W and color modes.
-
- Command line parameters - defined on the command line e.g. -dBitsPerPixel=24
-
- -dBitsPerPixel=1 monochrome printing, grayscales generated by ghostscript's
- halftoning - fastest printing method.
- 8 grayscale printing using Turboprint's dithering
- or color printing combining ghostscript's halftoning and
- Turboprint's dithering - uses less RAM
- 16 color printing using Turboprint's dithering; uses less RAM
- than 24 bit but lower quality
- 24 color printing using Turboprint's dithering; highest quality;
- this is the default
-
- -dColor=0 grayscale printing
- 1 colour printing, default
-
- -rDPI sets the x and y resolution to DPI; if resolution is not available
- the next lower resolution is used
- -rXDPIxYDPI sets the x resolution to XDPI and the y resolution to YDPI
-
- -dDensity=1..7 Selects the print resolution according to the density setting in
- Turboprefs
- -dQuality=0..9 Selects the print quality according to the setting in Turboprefs
-
- -dZoomX=1..999 Selects a zoom factor
- -dZoomY=1..999
-
- -dMoveX=... move the printout on the page - values are in 1/1000 Inch
- negative values: nove left / up
- -dMoveY=... positive values: move printout right / down
-
-