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Article #4132Ghostview 1.4 Released
From: Tim Theisen
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 04:19
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 04:19
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Ghostview 1.4 is available via anonymous ftp from:
ftp.cs.wisc.edu:/pub/X/ghostview-1.4.tar.Z
prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/ghostview-1.4.tar.Z
It will soon be propagating to the usual GNU distribution points:
archie.au, archive.eu.net, src.doc.ic.ac.uk, isy.liu.se,
ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de, ftp.funet.fi, ftp.diku.dk,
ugle.unit.no, ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp, wuarchive.wustl.edu,
gatekeeper.dec.com, uxc.cso.uiuc.edu, and ftp.uu.net
(under /packages/gnu).
For information on how to order GNU software on tape, e-mail
a request to: gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu
Ghostview is an X11 user interface for the ghostscript PostScript
interpreter. It runs on a wide variety of Unix systems. As of
this release, it also runs on VMS.
Other than VMS support, no new features are included in this release.
Here is a quick summary of the major changes:
- Ghostview now runs on VMS.
- Ghostview sends PostScript to the ghostscript interpreter in a much
more efficient manner.
- The DSC comment scanner has be revised to detect figures that are
included without being protected by %%Begin(End)Document comments.
- Ghostview now properly destroys popup zoom windows and kills the
associated interpreter.
- Ghostview automatically adjusts to not being able to allocate the
backing pixmap.
For more details, see the HISTORY file.
For people that have difficulty building ghostview, I have placed executables
from several architectures in the ftp.cs.wisc.edu:/pub/X/ghostview-exe
directory.
...Tim
Tim Theisen Systems Programmer
Internet: tim@cs.wisc.edu Department of Computer Sciences
UUCP: uwvax!tim University of Wisconsin-Madison
Phone: (608)262-0438 1210 West Dayton Street
FAX: (608)262-9777 Madison, WI 53706
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