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

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From: David Shepherd
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 00:00

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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...

However, I've found that some of these changes "break" some contributed
utilities that Aladdin supply but do not support so they are still the
2.6 versions. For example, I can't get ps2epsi to work!

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Date: 1995/03/29
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