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Article #62980Re: major enhancments of Aladdin ghostscript vs. GNU ghostscript?
From: Peter Vollenweider
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 09:02
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 09:02
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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... Peter Vollenweider
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