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Ghostview 1.4 Released

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From: Tim Theisen
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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Subject: Ghostview 1.4 Released
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