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This document is a record of changes in Ghostscript releases numbered 6.n. For earlier versions, see the 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
For other information, see the Ghostscript overview.
Within each release, news appears in the following order: Incompatible changes, Documentation, Procedures, Utilities, Drivers, Platforms, Fonts, PDF writer (included under Drivers through fileset 5.88), Interpreter, Streams (included under Interpreter through release 2.9.9), Library. Changes marked with a * were made available as patches to a previous release.
This is the official 7.0 AFPL Ghostscript release. Most of the changes since 6.64 are quite minor, with the exception of one fix for ICC profile support.
All problems registered on SourceForge numbered 414588 or lower are closed, except for the following: 209350 215256, 219798, 221582, 222534, 222727, 224056, 224863, 226477, 226584, 227684, 228180, 228641, 230694, 231390, 404255, 404482, 405342, 406285, 406689, 406696, 406979, 407342, 409887, 410371, 411753, 413114, 413669, 413747, 414022, 414104, 414588.
Updates broken and obsolete offsite links in the documenation. (doc/Devices.htm [1.28], doc/Fonts.htm [1.18], doc/Language.htm [1.30], doc/Lib.htm [1.11], doc/Maintain.htm [1.17], doc/Make.htm [1.29], doc/New-user.htm [1.26], doc/Projects.htm [1.29], doc/Ps2epsi.htm [1.12], doc/Readme.htm [1.27]: 2001/04/08 04:42:55 giles) Updates version number and date in preparation for 7.00 release. (doc/API.htm [1.9], doc/Bug-form.htm [1.20], doc/Bug-info.htm [1.17], doc/C-style.htm [1.17], doc/Commprod.htm [1.13], doc/Copying.htm [1.11], doc/Current.htm [1.11], doc/DLL.htm [1.13], doc/Develop.htm [1.38], doc/Devices.htm [1.29], doc/Drivers.htm [1.19], doc/Fonts.htm [1.19], doc/Helpers.htm [1.15], doc/History1.htm [1.11], doc/History2.htm [1.11], doc/History3.htm [1.11], doc/History4.htm [1.11], doc/History5.htm [1.13], doc/History6.htm [1.27], doc/Htmstyle.htm [1.16], doc/Install.htm [1.22], doc/Issues.htm [1.9], doc/Language.htm [1.31], doc/Lib.htm [1.12], doc/Maintain.htm [1.18], doc/Make.htm [1.30], doc/New-user.htm [1.27], doc/News.htm [1.84], doc/Projects.htm [1.30], doc/Ps-style.htm [1.11], doc/Ps2epsi.htm [1.13], doc/Ps2pdf.htm [1.29], doc/Psfiles.htm [1.19], doc/README [1.10], doc/Readme.htm [1.28], doc/Release.htm [1.35], doc/Source.htm [1.11], doc/Tester.htm [1.12], doc/Unix-lpr.htm [1.11], doc/Use.htm [1.27], doc/Xfonts.htm [1.11], doc/gs-vms.hlp [1.10], man/dvipdf.1 [1.8], man/font2c.1 [1.8], man/gs.1 [1.8], man/gslp.1 [1.8], man/gsnd.1 [1.8], man/pdf2dsc.1 [1.8], man/pdf2ps.1 [1.10], man/pdfopt.1 [1.8], man/pf2afm.1 [1.8], man/pfbtopfa.1 [1.9], man/printafm.1 [1.8], man/ps2ascii.1 [1.8], man/ps2epsi.1 [1.8], man/ps2pdf.1 [1.12], man/ps2pdfwr.1 [1.9], man/ps2ps.1 [1.15], man/wftopfa.1 [1.8]: 2001/04/09 06:20:01 raph)
Completes the change of default X directories to /usr/X11R6. Last commit on this was inadvertently incomplete. (unix-gcc.mak [1.19], unixansi.mak [1.14]: 2001/04/07 23:34:40 raph) Updates version number and date in preparation for 7.00 release. (version.mak [1.33]: 2001/04/09 06:20:03 raph)
Fixes problems: - Correct the Unix executable handing of the display device formats of 8bit and 24bit per pixel RGB. (dxmain.c [1.3]: 2001/04/08 08:40:29 ghostgum) - Ghostscript should return to the caller, not exit. Remove exit() from gp_do_exit() for all platforms except VMS. (gp_dvx.c [1.4], gp_iwatc.c [1.5], gp_os9.c [1.4], gp_unix.c [1.5]: 2001/04/08 08:43:24 ghostgum)
Fixes problems: - AR4 doesn't like fonts with empty FontBBox which happens when the font contains only space characters. Small BBox causes AR 4 to display a hairline. So we use the full BBox. (gdevpdfw.c [1.11]: 2001/04/08 14:12:56 alexcher)
Fixes problems: - Ghostscript should return to the caller, not exit. Remove exit() from gp_do_exit() for all platforms except VMS. (gs.c [1.6]: 2001/04/08 08:43:24 ghostgum) - Need a cast to (gs_memory_t *) to prevent errors on some compliers. Change provided by Nelson H. F. Beebe. (zfdctd.c [1.6]: 2001/04/09 05:15:57 rayjj) - Setting an ICC color space now invalidates the joint cache, so that TransformPQR gets computed. The profile is explicitly loaded so that the TransformPQR procedures have access to the white point. Also, the photometric interpretation of the hack for /All separation color spaces is reversed. Fixes Fixed_Original.pdf from Michael Jahn and Adobe tech note 5002_EPSF_Spec.pdf. (zicc.c [1.2]: 2001/04/09 06:09:58 raph) Updates version number and date in preparation for 7.00 release. (lib/gs_init.ps [1.34]: 2001/04/09 06:20:03 raph)
Fixes problems: - Setting an ICC color space now invalidates the joint cache, so that TransformPQR gets computed. The profile is explicitly loaded so that the TransformPQR procedures have access to the white point. Also, the photometric interpretation of the hack for /All separation color spaces is reversed. Fixes Fixed_Original.pdf from Michael Jahn and Adobe tech note 5002_EPSF_Spec.pdf. (gscsepr.c [1.9], gsicc.c [1.2], gsicc.h [1.2]: 2001/04/09 06:09:58 raph)
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Ghostscript version 7.00, 8 April 2001