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Re: major enhancments of Aladdin ghostscript vs. GNU ghostscript?

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From: David Bourgin (The best player)
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 1995 00:00
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In article <1995Mar31.091538.14509@rzu-news.unizh.ch>, rzuvo@rzu.unizh.ch (Peter Vollenweider) writes:
|> Peter Vollenweider (rzuvo@rzu.unizh.ch) wrote:
|> : Jianlin Chang (changj@Jeff-Lab.QueensU.CA) wrote:
|> : : What's the major major enhancments of Aladdin ghostscript vs. GNU ghostscript? I am wondering
|> : : whether I should upgrade to Aladdin ghostscript. Thanks very much. 
|> 
|> : Aladdin ghostscript is supporting PostScript Level 2.
|> : This includes features such as:
|> : - new PS operators for speeding up the execution of
|> :   Display PostScript, e.g. rectfill, selectfont, xyshow
|> : - composite fonts
|> : - new pattern dictionary, makepattern
|> : - new form dictionary in order to produce forms
|> : - new halftone dictionary
|> : - color spaces, setcolorspace, setcolor, XYZ-space 
|> : - color image compression, JPEG, DCTfilter 
|> : - more...
|> 
|> Can somebody tell the subscribers
|> what kind of product Aladdin is
|> and where it is available ???
|> 
|> Many Thanks, Peter 

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