Bug 136909 - ghostscript in a distribution quite behind times
Summary: ghostscript in a distribution quite behind times
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 126326
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: ghostscript
Version: 3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tim Waugh
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-10-23 00:25 UTC by Michal Jaegermann
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-02-21 19:06:34 UTC
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Description Michal Jaegermann 2004-10-23 00:25:51 UTC
Description of problem:

The current version of "GPL Ghostscript" is 8.15.  See, for example,

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1897&package_id=108733

The one in distribution is still ghostscript-7.07 while there
were numerous improvents; in particular in fonts handling.
Even version 8.01 was released close to nine months ago.

Comment 1 Barry K. Nathan 2004-10-25 07:13:13 UTC
There was a thread on fedora-devel-list discussing this recently.
AFAICT nobody's quite sure whether to go with GNU, GPL, or ESP
GhostScript...

Comment 2 Michal Jaegermann 2004-10-26 01:05:52 UTC
Recently I have seen quite a few times praised 8.15 which seems
to fix a number of issues, in particular with results for display
and other related to PDF, which were quite apparent in various
earlier releases.  I have to admit that I do not have a comparison
with variants of other origins.

This is coupled with recent advances in urw-fonts and their
cyrillic subset in particular but from what I hear not only.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/urw-fonts-cyrillic/

Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2004-10-26 08:06:44 UTC
There is also a thread on cups.general, starting here:

  http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php?s33+gcups.general+Gcups+v36

about cooperatively upgrading ESP Ghostscript to the new major
version.  If that starts to pick up momentum it might be worth
switching over to ESP Ghostscript.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 126326 ***

Comment 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 19:06:34 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.


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