|Approximately 238 bugs have been fixed since version 8.62. Of particular note
|are robustness and performance improvements with large files, invalid PDF, and
|font handling.
|
|The major new feature of this release is multithreaded rendering. This can be
|requested by passing -dNumRenderingThreads=n on the command line. The input
|document is first parsed, and then each page is split into n bands which are
|rendered concurrently. This can provide a significant reduction in processing
|time on multi-core systems.
|
|Images are now always interpolated in their source colorspace. This improves
|correctness for XPS documents and avoids bypassing the custom color management
|callbacks for interpolated images. Interpolation and color management are both
|expensive operations, so this affects performance with large images. The effect
|can be positive or negative depending on the file and the target resolution. If
|performance is a problem, we suggest running with -dNOINTERPOLATION.
|
|Support for OpenPrinting Vector devices has been upgraded to version 1.0.
|
|There are two new devices in this release, both experimental. Behdad Esfahbod
|has contributed a cairo output device which uses the cairo graphics library to
|generate PDF, SVG, EPS, or PNG files, based on the requested filename
|extension. The svgwrite device directly outputs Scalable Vector Graphics, the
|W3C XML vector graphics format. Both support only vector art at this point;
|text and images will not be represented efficiently.
|
|Incompatible changes
|
|The maximum number of color components has been reduced to 8 (from 252) as a
|performance improvement. Eight is the largest number commonly used and the
|largest number for which we support continuous tone images. Users with special
|needs can restore the previous behavior by setting the
|GS_CLIENT_COLOR_MAX_COMPONENTS preprocessor symbol to the required number of
|components at compile time.
|
|The -Z: debugging option now uses 'realtime' instead of 'usertime' when
|reporting timing information on unix-like systems. This has always been the
|case on windows-like systems.
|
|Obsolete makefiles for the DesqView environment have been removed.
- Use OPTION for driver selection.
- Revert bogus Japanese font support patch. This version already
supports Japanese TTF/OTF.
- Add more Asian fonts in cidfmap.
- Clean up Makfile.
- Remove USE_XLIB/USE_X_PREFIX/USE_XPM in favor of USE_XORG
- Remove X11BASE support in favor of LOCALBASE or PREFIX
- Use USE_LDCONFIG instead of INSTALLS_SHLIB
- Remove unneeded USE_GCC 3.4+
Thanks to all Helpers:
Dmitry Marakasov, Chess Griffin, beech@, dinoex, rafan, gahr,
ehaupt, nox, itetcu, flz, pav
PR: 116263
Tested on: pointyhat
Approved by: portmgr (pav)
- Update MASTER_SITES for MD2K driver
- Add DMPRT driver
- Add patches necessary for building cups-pstoraster
- Add KRGB support patch for IJS driver
Submitted by: KATO Tsuguru <tkato432@yahoo.com>
Tested by: Jose M Rodriguez <josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es>
Pointy hat to: barner [1]
Reported by: kris via pointyhat [1]
- The Ghostscript 8.15 compatibilty patch (patch-pcl3_eprn_eprnrend.c)
is by Till Kamppeter (till.kamppeter at gmx.net) and has originally
been posted on [3]
Submitted by: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org> [1],
Jose M Rodriguez <josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es> [2]
PR: ports/77185 [1], ports/76731 (partly) [2]
Obtained from: http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/printing/ghostscript-8.x/patches/ghostscript-8.15-pcl3-driver-api8.patch [3]
the AFPL Ghostscript 8.00 release of 14 months ago. The most
significant new feature since 7.0x is support for DeviceN
colorspaces, up to 8 colorants total at 8 bits per component. Also,
pdfwrite has seen considerable improvement in font handling, and
many other bug fixes.
PR: ports/72326
Submitted by: Ports Fury
TrueType fonts from working.
- A file cidfmap now includes entries for Ryumin-Light and
GothicBBB-Medium. They points japanese/kochi-ttfonts by default
(but this port does not depend on it).
Approved by: linimon (mentor)
Take measures to cope with too frequent update (without version numbering)
of Samsung-SmartGDI driver
PR: 54707
Submitted by: KATO Tsuguru <tkato@prontomail.com>
- Fix build on -current
- Fix checksum of gdevdj9.c.gz (again)
- Get much improved ps2epsi stuff from ghostscript-gnu version
PR: 37500
Submitted by: Ports Fury
Modifications against PR are:
o $MASTER_SITES substitution.
o Typo in scripts/configure.
PR: ports/36673
Submitted by: KATO Tsuguru <tkato@prontomail.com>
Modifications against PR are:
o $MASTER_SITES substitution.
o Typo in scripts/configure.
I don't know why $MLINKS entries are not in generated plist...
PR: ports/36673
Submitted by: KATO Tsuguru <tkato@prontomail.com>
- Important fix, therefore PORTREVISION bumped.
background info: hpijs currently may not compiled with -O or -O2.
Simply leaving out any optimization (like it was default in prior
hpijs versions) cures the problem.
Many thanks to David Suffield from HP-Vancouver.
- deploy DATADIR/DOCSDIR
- don't use internal .mk work variables, rely on supported
ones
_DISTDIR -> DISTDIR/DIST_SUBDIR
o use <machine/endian.h> for checking byte order instead of an
ARCH check
PR: 31077
Submitted by: KATO Tsuguru <tkato@prontomail.com>
