This document is news about the most recent Ghostscript release. For earlier versions, see the history documents:

History of Ghostscript versions 6.n
History of Ghostscript versions 5.n
History of Ghostscript versions 4.n
History of Ghostscript versions 3.n
History of Ghostscript versions 2.n
History of Ghostscript versions 1.n

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Version 6.50 (2000-12-02)

This fileset consists of AFPL Ghostscript 6.50, a maintenance release.

All problems registered on SourceForge numbered 124313 or lower are closed, except for the following: 101814, 101905, 101955, 102146, 102735, 105289, 106340, 106652, 109350, 111449, 113116, 113799, 114084, 115256, 115536, 116461, 117066, 117260, 119676, 119677, 119798, 120967, 121161, 121582, 121715, 122035, 122426, 122532, 122534, 122683, 122727, 123005, 123091, 123702, 123754, 123867, 123896, 123992, 124042, 124056, 124095, 124134, 124204, 124313.

The following projects are in a partially completed state:

• CID-keyed fonts in the PDF writer (gdevpdf[eftw].c) -- barely started.

Incompatible changes

(Procedures)
	- The -Zv and -ZV switches now trace alpha/transparency features.
	- The program name is now AFPL Ghostscript rather than Aladdin
Ghostscript.
	- The default Windows installation directory is now c:\gs rather
than c:\Aladdin.
(Utilities)
	- lib/pdfeof.ps is deleted; its functionality is included in the
standard code.
(Drivers)
	- The X driver now implements sync_output using XSync(False) rather
than XFlush().
(Library)
	- gdev_vector_dopath now never returns 1.
	- Color space types now have a new, required, "equal" procedure.

Ghostscript version 6.50, 2 December 2000