Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 7.07-25 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: GPL Ghostscript 8.01 has been out for a while now. It has much improved TT font handling, PDF export and also support N-color spaces.
Wonder if all of the 3rd party patches we ship have caught up yet. They hadn't when I last tried this.
The patches indeed haven't caught up. :-) I have yet to figure out though how to get hold of 8.xx if I believe I do not require these 3rd party patches. And I can't find all too many usable alternative packagers for 8.xx (whether AFPL or GPL). How about "pushing" these 3rd party vendors a little bit? ;-) I know the step from 7.xx to 8.xx may be painful, but sooner or later it should be worth it.
Note GS 8.15 in CVS is tagged GPL. This is the version worth pushing for. It is equivalent to 8.14, plus bug fixes, new high end devices, much improved PDFwriter and new font grid fitting. I believe it will support some PDF 1.5 and will probably require japsper to work correctly.
I'd like to mention that 8.15 fixes some real show-stopper pdf bugs, I highly recommend its adapation asap.
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I believe that it was determined that ESP Ghostscript has most of the Fedora-relevant drivers integrated already? If that is correct, and switching is an option it looks like ESP GS 8.15 is forthcoming, with RC1 released a couple of days ago: http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L214 Could it be interesting to switch Fedora to this version?
This is a post-FC4 thing I think.
> This is a post-FC4 thing I think. That would be somewhat unfortunate. GPL 8.15 was released on 2004-09-23 and claims "improved font rendering, and offers significantly better PDF generation". See also comment #4. Yes, I know that ESP 8.15 is not there yet.
Please look at: http://advogato.org/person/raph/diary.html?start=411 (topic "Ghostscript leading edge is now GPL!"). "... we're looking for a person to oversee this integration work, and to work more closely with the distributions and others in the free software community." Time to send upstream 3rd party patches and update FC package to 8.54?
If only I had the time to do this! For the moment we'll need to continue tracking ESP Ghostscript, so hopefully ESP will find someone to do the integration work.