status of ghostscript

Kyrre Ness Sjobak kyrre at solution-forge.net
Tue Oct 19 16:02:39 UTC 2004


Printing this with the gimp-print (?) driver took me 10-15 minutes of gs
chrunching:
http://skrot.solution-forge.net/Aurlandsrapport.pdf

tir, 19.10.2004 kl. 10.16 skrev Tim Waugh:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 10:36:35PM +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> 
> > what's the ghostscript future in FC ?
> > 
> > GNU Ghostscript http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/gnu/
> >                 http://www.gnu.org/software/ghostscript/
> > ESP Ghostscript http://www.cups.org/ghostscript.php
> 
> Good question.  Well, what do we all think?
> 
> > GPL Ghostscript http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghostscript/
> 
> This site is no longer current, by the way.  The GNU Ghostscript
> project is the same thing at GPL Ghostscript.
> 
> > Slackware has changed to ESP because it brings more
> > drivers and has a better integration with CUPS
> 
> Well, the drawback is that you end up being further removed from the
> origin of the source code.  The benefit is that someone else does (a
> lot of) the integration for you.
> 
> Does ESP Ghostscript include the patches for Japanese support, out of
> interest?  What are the differences between the ESP Ghostscript
> package and our package based on GNU Ghostscript (which has lots of
> patches)?
> 
> Which direction should Fedora Core take for ghostscript?  Now is a
> good time to discuss that, since we're overdue to jump to version 8.
> 
> Tim.
> */
> 
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